Friday, November 17, 2023

First Lines: Joyce Carol Oates


One afternoon in September 1959 a young woman factory worker was walking home on the towpath of the Erie Barge Canal, east of the small city of Chautauqua Falls, when she began to notice that she was being followed, at a distance of about thirty feet, by a man in a panama hat.

The Gravedigger's Daughter
Joyce Carol Oates

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