Re: JCO: It's Nobel Season Again

Oh yes----this is the season of hope for all of us!  I have gnashed my teeth in this very group over the lack of a Nobel Prize for JCO, and in fact have been so dramatic about it that I promise NOT to gnash if she doesn't win.

 

But ah.....if she does......I will dance in the streets and hope SOME of you will dance with me.

 

If the awards indeed are going to be announced this Thursday, then I will be comforted one way or another---I'm having major gum surgery that day, and if JCO is again passed over, my pain will seem as naught---and if she is FINALLY chosen, my pain will also seem as naught!

 

Let us keep fingers crossed and hope that this year the judges have actually read her work...

 

Very hopefully,

Christa

JCO: It's Nobel Season Again

(Has it been a year gone by, so soon?)

JCO received requisite notice in today's New York
Times as "said to be in the running" for the prize,
which is reported to be announced next Thursday.

Cheers,

-ahr

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Re: JCO: Mother, Missing

In a message dated 9/30/05 9:03:17 AM, erickarl78@hotmail.com writes:

I wonder why they decided
to change it.

I think it's because "Mom" is "Mum" in U.K.

JCO: Mother, Missing

I was just browsing in Waterstone's in London at lunch and surprised to see
the new Joyce Carol Oates novel out here under a slightly different title.
Missing Mom is called Mother, Missing in the UK. I wonder why they decided
to change it. It sounds more like a mystery novel this way I guess, but
that's really not what the content is. There isn't much of a mystery. It's
more about the process of grief and coming to terms with how to exist
parentless in the world (even if you are already an adult)

Just thought I'd alert everyone in the UK to its publication since I hadn't
heard it was coming out yet.

Eric

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