Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
What is the setting in the story Heat?
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What is the setting in the story Heat?
From the text:
It was midsummer, the heat rippling above the macadam roads, cicadas screaming out of the trees, and the sky like pewter, glaring.
Heat