The Wheel of Love is contains 20 works of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates published by Vanguard Press in 1970.[1] The volume brought Oates "abundant national acclaim" [2] including this assessment from librarian and critic John Alfred Avant: "Quite simply, one of the finest collections of short stories ever written by an American."[3][4][5]
While the book itself is out of print, several of the stories—"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", "Unmailed, Unwritten Letters", "In the Region of Ice", and "Wild Saturday"—have been included in other collections and anthologies. It was a finalist for the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- ^ Johnson, 1994 p. 218-222: Selected Bibliography, Primary Works
- ^ Johnson, 1994 p. 4
- ^ Avant, 1970
- ^ "On the Rack". Time. October 26, 1970. Archived from the original on October 30, 2010. Retrieved 2009-01-14.
- ^ Champion, Laurie (2002). Contemporary American Women Fiction Writers: An A-to-Z Guide. books.google.com: Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 269. ISBN 9780313316272.