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For Oates' pretensions--his impassioned defense of abused children; his overassiduous note-taking; his obsessions with criminality, mesmerism, and his wife's sister--parrot Dickens' own well-documented preoccupations.
The New York Times Book Review declares it one of the year's "ten best books," and Joyce Carol Oates, writing in The New Yorker (for which Updike often writes), calls it "the most inventive of his myriad fiction.
In a celebrated case, Abraham Lincoln biographer Stephen Oates was said to have ripped off a widely read 1952 Lincoln biography by Benjamin Thomas.
That danger is very, very real declared Deputy Chief Daniel Oates, testifying in federal court Monday as to why protests on the steps of City Hall must be limited to 50 people, a limitation set for the first time in the city's history.
"Joyce Carol Oates' oeuvre ; Whatsername's stuff."