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Wild Nights! and Grandpa Clemens and Angelfish: 1906: A Play
Wild Nights and Grandpa Clemens and Angelfish 1906 A Play Author:Joyce Carol Oates Dramatic Comedy / 2m, 2f. — The famously reclusive poetess appears as an uncannily life-like computerized mannequin brought home by a childless, affluent suburban couple in the hope that their disaffected lives will be "enhanced" by a poet-genius in their household. Soon, like generations of literary critics and biographers, the Krims find themse... more »lves obsessed by the wraithlike Emily. They spy on her writing her riddlesome poems-they become infatuated with her, in very different ways. Mysterious, cunning, provocative, this "Emily Dickinson" is also very funny, at the expense of her hosts. After an erotic interlude of shocking-and comic-crudeness, Wild Nights! ends on a startling and unexpected romantic note. Wild Nights! has been called by Fantastic Fiction, "Joyce Carol Oates' most original and haunting work of the imagination" and by the Washington Post, "imaginative, impressive work that spotlights another side of Oates's talent."« less