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The Triumph of the Spider Monkey

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  • 1976 first published
  • 119 pages
  • 5 editions
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The Triumph of the Spider Monkey is a 1976 poetry collection by Joyce Carol Oates. Much of the action takes place in Southern coastal California. Key subjects include Psychopathy and unreliable narration.

6 Open Library readers have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 5 editions.

At about 119 pages, most readers finish it in 2–3 hours.

Themes, setting & tropes

Tropes

Setting

  • Southern coastal California

Subjects

  • Psychopathy
  • Unreliable narration
  • Poetry, Poetic works by one author
  • American Short stories

Quick answers

Who wrote The Triumph of the Spider Monkey?

The Triumph of the Spider Monkey was written by Joyce Carol Oates and first published in 1976.

How long is The Triumph of the Spider Monkey?

The median edition has 119 pages, about 2–3 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to The Triumph of the Spider Monkey?

Readers who like it often enjoy Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings and Tales of Mystery and Terror (Black Cat / Descent into the Maelstrom / Fall of the House of Usher / Hop-Frog / Masque of the Red Death / MS. Found in a Bottle / Oblong Box / Oval Portrait / Pit and the Pendulum / Some Words With a Mummy / Sphinx / Tell-Tale Heart / William Wilson).

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