Joyce Carol Oates’s dozens of novels and hundreds of short stories forgo an air of cool mastery in favor of a kind of cultivated vulnerability.
If Dostoyevsky was a specialist in the “dialogical,” Oates serves up something altogether more churning and “agonizingly thorough.” For a while, the novel seems to be concerned with Thom’s attempt to achieve legal justice for Whitey’s death, and with his attempts to frighten off Jessalyn’s new boyfriend, Hugo Martinez, a Newark-born photographer and poet whom some of the McClaren children view as a gold-digger. Yet neither of Thom’s projects comes to dominate our interest.
Oates’s habits are designed to unsettle us and, though pleasure is never out of the equation, the novel avoids many traditional narrative strategies for ginning up tension. The reader is shown, long before any of the surviving characters are, the circumstances of the novel’s central narrative event. Whitey’s roadside encounter with the Hammond police is presented as answers to a series of factual questions .
Now and again, you’re reminded of Martin Amis’s grievance that, though James Joyce could take you anywhere, he keeps taking you places you don’t want to go.
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