Betty's review
High Lonesome: Stories 1966-2006 by Joyce Carol Oates
This is a collection of 'new and selected stories' (so says the cover) written by Joyce Carol Oates. I wouldn't say 'depressing' is quite the correct description of the stories I have read so far.... One person in our book club described her as have a 'quirky little dark side'. Most of the stories I've read are snippets from the lives of various characters; things that if they had happened to you, you would not want others to know.... Her writing is engaging.
