Oates, J: The Lost Landscape A Writer's Coming of Age

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

'Every piece merits re-issue ... 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

Praise for Joyce Carol Oates:

'Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going' Gillian Flynn, author of "Gone Girl"

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

'Joyce Carol Oates is an 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