TY - BOOK AU - Oates, Joyce Carol, TI - Night. Sleep. Death. The stars.: a novel SN - 9780008381080 U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2020/// CY - [London] PB - Fourth Estate, KW - Fathers KW - Death KW - Fiction KW - Psychological aspects KW - Grief KW - Psychic trauma KW - Social classes KW - Families KW - Widows KW - Domestic fiction KW - Psychological fiction KW - lcgft N2 - Night Sleep Death The Stars is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, Joyce Carol Oates's latest novel is a vivid exploration of race, psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing, as well as an intimate family novel in the tradition of the author's bestselling We Were the Mulvaneys ER -