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The Model

Joyce Carol Oates

First published October 1992
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

"'The Model' casts a pall across a sunny California coastal town with a story of an orphaned adolescent girl, a strange amateur artist who is determined to sketch her (for cash, if she likes) and an aunt who is equally determined to protect her niece from the truth about a troubled past. (Niece and aunt moved from Vermont to California, the reader is told, so as to live in a 'shadowless place with no history.')" (Michael Upchurch)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
October 1992 Cover Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, October 1992 Dell Magazines MAGAZINE 243
February 1994 Cover Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque Dutton Collection 99
February 1995 Cover Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque Plume / Penguin Collection 99
January 1998 Cover Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque Plume / Penguin Collection 99
March 2003 Cover Small Avalanches and Other Stories HarperTempest Collection 311
March 2004 Cover Small Avalanches and Other Stories HarperTempest Collection 311