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Heat and Other Stories is a collection of 25 works of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates published by E. P. Dutton in 1991.[1]

This volume serves as “a postmodernist allegory of contemporary America” in which Oates returns to the settings of her early fiction in rural western New York state.[2]

The story “Yarrow” won the O. Henry Award in 1991.[3]

Stories

Heat and Other Stories includes the following stories:[4]

  • “House Hunting”
  • “The Knife”
  • “The Hair”
  • “Shopping”
  • “The Boyfriend”
  • “Passion”
  • “Morning”
  • “Naked”
  • “Heat”
  • “The Buck”
  • “Yarrow”
  • “Sundays in Summer”
  • “Leila Lee”
  • “The Swimmers”
  • “Getting to Know All About You”
  • “Capital Punishment”
  • “Hostage”
  • “Craps”
  • “Death Valley”
  • “White Trash”
  • “Twins”
  • “The Crying Baby”
  • “Why Don’t You Come Live With Me It’s Time”
  • “Ladies and Gentlemen:”
  • “Family”

Reception and analysis

Literary critic Wendy Lesser in The New York Times reports that Oates’s “own enormous body of work” has become a burden that the author carries into her collection Heat and Other Stories, which deal largely with “parent-child struggles.”[5] Lesser offers the story “Shopping” as an example of Oates’s thematic concerns in this volume: the story is not a Gothic horror reminiscent of Poe, but “transcends” that genre to present normality “in all its terrifying nakedness.”[6] She compares Oates’s handling of violence in stories with that of fiction writer Paul Bowles:

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Biographer and critic Greg Johnson offered this praise for the collection:"Heat and Other Stories represent Oates’s full maturity as a writer of short fiction, the genre that best exploits the versatility and intensity of her narrative gifts.”[7]

Booklist also reviewed the collection.[8]

References

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Sources

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  1. Johnson, 1994 p. 218-221: Selected Bibliography, Primary Works
  2. Johnson, 1994 p. 94, p. 99
  3. Johnson, 1994 p. 99
  4. Johnson, 1994 p. 219 in Selected Bibliography
  5. Lesser, 1991: “Heat: And Other Stories," are about bad parents—or, at the very least, about misunderstandings between parent and child.”
  6. Lesser, 1991
  7. Johnson, 1994 p. 106
  8. Booklist