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among others—to show how rewarding it can be to look at nature in a deeper way

and money is tight

Though the two girls are immediately at odds

Washing the dishes is an ordinary

The Frenzy by Joyce Carol Oates Entangled lines start to bluroyce Carol Oates is a master of the short story and one of the legends of the form. Her collections of short fiction have twice been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and have won numerous awards, including the O. Henry Award and the PEN Malamud Award for Excellence in the Art of the Short Story. In The Frenzy: Stories, Oates plunges us into the lives of her characters at moments of crisis and confusion, when much of what they understand about