Title: How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again

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Title: How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again Title Record # 1194539
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Date: 1969-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English

Note: First published in the magazine TriQuarterly, Spring 1969.

Synopsis: A sixteen-year-old girl tells how she ran away from her home to the big city, fell in with an attractive junkie, got into crime and prostitution, was arrested, and returned home.

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
The Modern Tradition: An Anthology of Short Stories	1972-00-00	ed. Daniel F. Howard	Little, Brown			xx+ 646	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection	1986-00-00	ed. Clifton Fadiman	Houghton Mifflin	0-395-36805-7		xiii+ 847	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Small Avalanches and Other Stories	2003-03-00	Joyce Carol Oates	HarperTempest	0-06-001217-X	$16.99^?$: US dollar	390	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	coll	Adam Gaynor
Small Avalanches and Other Stories	2004-03-00	Joyce Carol Oates	HarperTempest	0-06-001219-6	$7.99^?$: US dollar	392	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Adam Gaynor

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