Published in 2009, this is Oates’s twenty-fifth collection of short stories, which appeared at a time when the writer was an acknowledged and award winning literary figure of novels and short stories.
Dear Husbandcontains fourteen stories, most of which had been previously published in magazines, including
The New Yorker,
Yale Reviewand
American Short Fiction. These highly acclaimed stories center around themes familiar to Oates’s readers: filial and sibling relationships, violence, and the values of modern America.
At the time of its publication, this collection received attention based on the success of Oates’s novels Blonde (2000), which was a bestseller and adapted into a television mini-series, and We Are The Mulvaneys (1996), which enjoyed national popularity when it was
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Citation: Trimarco, Paola. "Dear Husband: Stories". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 March 2015 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=30833, accessed 27 November 2024.]
