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

Joyce Carol Oates

First published 1972
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

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.

First published in the magazine TriQuarterly, Spring 1969.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1972 The Modern Tradition: An Anthology of Short Stories Little, Brown Anthology |11
1986 Cover The World of the Short Story: A Twentieth Century Collection Houghton Mifflin Anthology 753
March 2003 Cover Small Avalanches and Other Stories HarperTempest Collection 141
March 2004 Cover Small Avalanches and Other Stories HarperTempest Collection 141