A Sentimental Education

By (author): "Joyce Carol Oates"
Publish Date: 1980
A Sentimental Education
ISBN0525480218
ISBN139780525480211
AsinA Sentimental Education
Original titleSentimental Education
Six short stories about love: a love cruel, violent and often destructive, which does not admit hesitation and compromise: that love is a shattering experience, an explosion, an attack that shakes the spirit and the body. In the stories of Oates life is a battle fierce, no holds barred, for success but also for the need to be recognized, accepted, remembered and loved.Contains short stories:Queen of the Night. --The precipice. --The tryst. --A middle-class education. --In the autumn of the year. --A sentimental education.