I Am No One You Know: Stories

I Am No One You Know contains nineteen startling stories that bear witness to the remarkably varied lives of Americans of our time. In "Fire," a troubled young wife discovers a rare, radiant happiness in an adulterous relationship. In "Curly Red," a girl makes a decision to reveal a family secret, and changes her life irrevocably. In "The Girl with the Blackened Eye," selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2001, a girl pushed to an even greater extreme of courage and desperation manages to survive her abduction by a serial killer. And in "Three Girls," two adventuresome NYU undergraduates seal their secret love by following, and protecting, Marilyn Monroe in disguise at Strand Used Books on a snowy evening in 1956.

These vividly rendered portraits of women, men, and children testify to Oates's compassion for the mysterious and luminous resources of the human spirit.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 04/05/2005
ISBN: 9780060592899
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.06h x 6.66w x 0.76d

Review Citations: New York Times 06/19/2005 pg. 24
Ingram Advance 04/01/2005 pg. 72