For somehow I had acquired the belief that a surprise, a nice surprise, was waiting for me. The ball is blue, beautiful and new, "like a rubber ball I'd played with years before as a little girl a ball I'd loved and had long ago misplaced a ball I'd loved and had forgotten." She returns the ball to her unseen playmate, who throws it back to her, and the game of catch continues until interrupted by a desperate thought: "This is the surprise I've been waiting for. Its narrator recounts the epiphany of her adolescent solitude: While she is walking in a strange neighborhood, someone on the far side of a high brick wall throws a ball to her. An exquisite fable called "The Sky Blue Ball" introduces The Collector of Hearts, a gathering of recent stories by Joyce Carol Oates. Winter, a Washington writer and attorney who is completing a biography and critique of Clive Barker. $24.95 INVISIBLE WRITER A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates By Greg Johnson Dutton.
THE COLLECTOR OF HEARTS New Tales of the Grotesque By Joyce Carol Oates Dutton.
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