Zombie (14 page)
Authors: Joyce Carol Oates
Tags: #Thriller, #Crime, #Horror, #Contemporary, #Zombie
Mom called & left a message & the answering tape screwed up & erased most of it. Asking would I come for Christmas dinner probably.
Some of the material used in Chapter 13 is taken, in abbreviated form, from
Neuro-: Life on the Frontlines of Brain Surgery and Neurological Medicine
by David Noonan (Simon & Schuster, 1989), pp. 200-202.
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Sections of Part I appeared, in different form, in
The New Yorker
, October 1994.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers
We Were the Mulvaneys
and
Blonde
(a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize), and the
New York Times
bestsellers
The Falls
(winner of the 2005 Prix Femina Etranger) and
The Gravedigger’s Daughter
. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. In 2003 she received the Commonwealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature and the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, and in 2006 she received the Chicago Tribune Lifetime Achievement Award.
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