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Jude also plans to use the kidnapping to implicate a substitute teacher, Mikal Zallman, whom she has grown to loathe. This isn't some authentic Native American ritual, but a deranged recreation thought up by Jude after a school field trip. Marissa is to become the central figure in a corn maiden sacrifice. Leah Bantry's daughter Marissa is abducted by fellow student Jude Trahern and her "disciples". It is a tale of teens gone bad, taking a sometimes intimate, sometimes eagle-eye view of a student kidnapping. The novella "The Corn Maiden" is the centrepiece. In her new collection, Oates may be interested in renovations more than innovations, but readers will find plenty of ambiguity and strangeness to celebrate. She often appears to exist in several places at once, fantastic acts of genre-shifting accomplished without smoke or mirrors. E ven within the wild and tangled menagerie that comprises our literary landscape, Joyce Carol Oates is a startling creature, possessed of a speed and talent that hints at the uncanny.
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