Night, Neon

Tales of Mystery and Suspense

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Joe Hempel, Chelsea Stephens

From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand-new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery and suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life - from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood.

Taken as a whole, the collection forms a poignant tapestry of regular people searching for their place in a social hierarchy, often with devastating and disastrous results. Rendered with stylish, fresh writing from an author who continues to push the envelope, the stories deftly weave in and out of a stream-of-consciousness to reflect the ways we process traumatic experiences and impart that uncertainty and uneasiness to the listener.

Originally appearing in publications as disparate as Harper's, Vice, and Conjunctions, the stories comprising Night, Neon showcase Oates' mastery of the suspense story - and her relentless use of the form to conduct unapologetically honest explorations of American identity.

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Pretty good

This collection is not the best but it’s also not the worst. The readers were very good! :)

Excellent Stories

Once again, brilliant and strange stories written by a genuine American master!

The narration is excellent...don't pass this collection by...

A perfect collection of stories

JCO does it again. Each story is better than the last. Extraordinary narration, especially the woman narrator. A great listen for a solo transatlantic flight or a road trip.