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Joyce Carol Oates is an American author who has written novels, short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. She is one of the most prolific and celebrated American writers.

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They All Just Went Away
Oates explores her childhood compulsion to enter abandoned farmhouses in upstate New York — meditating on what emptied spaces contain and what the imagination makes of lives that have left no other trace.
They All Just Went Away
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They All Just Went Away
They All Just Went Away
Oates explores her childhood compulsion to enter abandoned farmhouses in upstate New York — meditating on what emptied spaces contain and what the imagination makes of lives that have left no other trace.
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