Joyce Carol Oates
Mary and Veronica are roommates at a fictitious American college where racial stereotypes are reversed. Caucasian Mary belongs to the minority race and black Veronica is a smugly altruistic representative of the majority. In the guise of friendliness, Veronica exploits and finally exhausts Mary while remaining oblivious of her own motives.
Joyce Carol Oates grew up in the countryside outside of Lockport, New York, where she attended a one-room schoolhouse in the elementary grades. As a small child, she told stories instinctively by way of drawing and painting before learning how to write. After receiving the gi ...
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