Marriages and Infidelities

Marriages and Infidelities (1972) is the fourth volume of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates. In this collection, Oates explores the relationship between love and betrayal.

Contents

• "The Sacred Marriage"
• "Puzzle"
• "Love and Death"
• "29 Inventions"
• "Problems of Adjustment in Survivors of Natural/Unnatural Disasters"
• "By the River'
• "Extraordinary Popular Delusions"
• "Stalking"
• "Scenes of Passion and Despair"
• "Plot"
• "The Children"
• "Happy Onion"
• "Normal Love"
• "Stray Children"
• "Wednesday's Child"
• "Loving a Man"
• "Losing a Man"
• "Loving a Man"
• "Did You Ever Slip on Red Blood?"
• "The Metamorphosis"
• "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For"
• "The Lady with the Pet Dog"
• "The Spiral"
• "The Turn of the Screw"
• "The Dead"
• "Nightmusic"

References

• Souther, R (1998). Marriages and Infidelities, Celestial Timepiece: A Joyce Carol Oates Home Page, .