{"id":11930,"date":"2010-03-22T11:06:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=11930"},"modified":"2016-06-08T18:26:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T22:26:31","slug":"joyce-carol-oates-i-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2010\/03\/22\/joyce-carol-oates-i-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyce Carol Oates: “I.D.”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"I.D.\"<\/strong><\/span>\r\nby Joyce Carol Oates<\/span>\r\nOriginally published in the March 29, 2010 issue of The New Yorker<\/em>.<\/span>\r\nClick<\/span> here<\/a> to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker <\/em>webpage.<\/span><\/pre>\n
\"Click<\/a><\/p>\n
It’s been over a year since Oates showed up in these pages, though she often has several published in the course of a year.\u00a0Last years’ offering was so-so for me (though better than many of this year’s). Unfortunately, this year’s first Oates offering is also just so-so for me.<\/p>\n
The story centers around Lizette, a middle-school girl suffering through the typical problems of middle school —\u00a0boys, lipstick, shame — but also from a physical malady,\u00a0caused by her father, that killed the nerves around her now constantly watering eyes and also from her mother’s forays into Atlantic City’s nightlife.<\/p>\n
We begin at school where Lizette is high on a beer buzz, go with her to the morgue for that I.D.,\u00a0and end up back in school for lunch.<\/p>\n
One\u00a0strength of the story is Oates’ writing style in which a very close third-person narrator takes us through Lizette’s morning.\u00a0However, I didn’t even really like that and started to look at this story as an exercise, a competent exercise, but nothing really comes out of the style for me. The only thing that kept me reading was the promise of mystery.<\/p>\n
I’m hoping next week is better.<\/p>\n
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