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Title: Upon the Sweeping Flood

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Title: Upon the Sweeping Flood Title Record # 2288335
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Date: 1963-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: Gothic, but not speculative. First published in the Southwest Review, Spring 1963.
Synopsis: A man driving home to his family, trying to outpace an impending hurricane, comes across two teenagers (a boy and a girl) stranded at a farm as waters rise. He shelters with them and events take a violent turn.
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The Granta Book of the American Short Story date unknown ed. Richard Ford (US) Granta Books & Penguin 0-14-014032-8
£8.99?£: UK pound
xxii+
710
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.
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