Man Crazy
Published on 5. August 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-86049-547-2 (ISBN)
Description
An intense roller-coaster ride into the abyss, MAN CRAZY charts the fall and rise of teenager Ingrid Boone, abandoned by her father, moving from town to town, taking what she can get and always giving too much in return. This is a novel about the horrors waiting at the end of the road for the innocent, but in the end it is about one girl's realisation that men don't make you more real, that pain isn't an integral part of normal life.
Reviews / Votes
Her writing is sinister, gothic and full of atmosphere . . . one of America's most original and disturbing voices * SUNDAY TIMES * Oates is one of the finest and most devastating living writers . . . this novel [is] extraordinary . . . a darkly comic monologue of panic and desperation, which, thankfully, allows you back up once it's dragged you down -- Julie Myerson * Mail on Sunday * The bizarre twists and turns of Ingrid's life take on a hallucinatory intensity . . . the one constant of the gripping story - the emotional deprivation that has scarred Ingrid for life - comes through with a fierce burning clarity * Publishers Weekly * Oates shows us the paradoxical resilience that sustains people who endure more than we can imagine, and somehow hang on. Her boldly drawn grotesques reach out to us, making us believe in them and care about their fates * Kirkus Reviews * Hypnotic and powerful. Man Crazy will take you on a dark and wild ride * Washington Post * Flawlessly written and haunting . . . Man Crazy demonstrates a distinctly American faith in the tenacious human spirit * Chicago Tribune * Unlike anything Joyce Carol Oates has written before * Atlanta Journal * Her writing is sinister, gothic and full of atmosphere ... one of America's most original and disturbing voices * SUNDAY TIMES * Oates is one of the finest and most devastating living writers ... this novel [is] extraordinary ... a darkly comic monologue of panic and desperation, which, thankfully, allows you back up once it's dragged you down * JULIE MYERSON, MAIL ON SUNDAY * The bizarre twists and turns of Ingrid's life take on a hallucinatory intensity ... the one constant of the gripping story - the emotional deprivation that has scarred Ingrid for life - comes through with a fierce burning clarity * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 126 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-86049-547-2 (9781860495472)
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Person
Joyce Carol Oates was born in New York in 1938. She has written many novels and numerous collections of stories, poetry and plays. Oates is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize for Lifetime Achievement, and has been nominated several times for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national best sellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde; and the New York Times best seller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. In 2020 she was awarded the Cino Del Duca World Prize for Literature. She is currently the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University.