The Lost Landscape

Rezensionen / Stimmen

'A compelling and at times mysterious testimony to a life of letters like no other I know' Richard Ford


'Every piece merits re-issue ... works effectively as a continuous memoir ... here and there we glimpse the gothic seam Oates has since mined in her fiction' Suzi Feay, Financial Times


'The spareness of the prose belies a hinterland of suffering . . Steely, lean and bleakly allusive, The Lost Landscape gives an unsettling insight into the ways in which Oates's writing career has emerged' Times Literary Supplement


'A tender-hearted excavation of [Oates'] hardscrabble early life' O, The Oprah Magazine


'Oates perfectly captures the unique confusion of childhood' Elle (US)


'An exquisitely rendered glimpse of [Oates'] childhood in rural upstate New York' Bookpage


'[an] intriguing new memoir . . . Oates mines literary gold' San Francisco Chronicle


'The Lost Landscape...offers a window into a highly original mind. While it is never a given that a writer's personal story can illuminate her work, in Oates' case, it very much does' Minneapolis Star Tribune


Praise for Joyce Carol Oates:


'[Joyce Carol Oates] is simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going, as far as I'm concerned' Gillian Flynn, author of "Gone Girl"


'Joyce Carol Oates is a writer who always takes your breath away' Mail on Sunday


'Oates is a writer of extraordinary strengths. Her great subject, naturally, is love' Guardian


'Oates is an inspired writer, and a formidable psychologist. She has a thrilling way of grasping an emotion, wasting no time and launching herself straight at the aching heart of the matter' Independent


'Oates's prose contains a deep felt rawness which hovers between hope, despair and love' Guardian