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Joyce Carol Oates
A gripping collection of suspenseful short stories and mysterious tales from American literary icon Joyce Carol Oates.
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From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’s asylum in the nineteenth century, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world.
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Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors - including Margaret Atwood, Raven Leilani, and Cassandra Khaw - to explore, subvert, and reinvent one of the most vital subgenres…
This rich compilation of Joyce Carol Oates's letters across four decades displays her warmth and generosity, her droll and sometimes wicked sense of humor, her phenomenal energy, and most of…
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A taut novella combining folklore, adolescent insecurity and blood sacrifice, plus six other, nightmarish, stories.
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A CrimeReads, AARP, Los Angeles Magazine and Dayton Daily News "Most Anticipated" Release In the newest literary thriller from celebrated author Joyce Carol Oates, a woman mysteriously vanishes, leaving her…
Four dark and compelling novellas about love gone wrong.
A collection of four never-before-seen novellas. In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful pieces, Joyce Carol Oates writes about women facing threats past and present.
The first poetry collection in twenty-five years by the National Book Award-winning author observes the human heart and mind while exploring subjects ranging from politics and racism to poverty and…
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A new collection of stories by one of America's greatest writers
Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America's most acclaimed writers, the award-winning, best-selling author of Blonde
A brilliant young philosophy student bent…
'A page-turner ... nothing less than magical' Observer
'An extraordinary slice of suburban noir' Daily Mail
From one of America's most renowned storytellers comes a novel about love and deceit…
Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers.
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'Oates's imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll's' ROSE TREMAIN
'Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going' GILLIAN FLYNN
This is a work of fiction incorporating episodes from the lives of the historic J. Marion Sims, M.D. (1813-1883), "The Father of Modern Gynecology"; Silas Weir Mitchell, M.D. (1829-1914), "The…
The much-anticipated reissue of a novel that is one of Joyce Carol Oates's personal favorites among her oeuvre; featuring a new afterword by Oates
When a woman mysteriously vanishes from her small town home, her sister must tally up the clues to uncover the truth behind the mystery.
Beautiful sculptor Marguerite has disappeared from…
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Joyce Oates
A story of the fall and rise of teenager Ingrid Boone, abandoned by her father, moving from town to town, taking what she can get and always giving too much…
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One of the most powerful and original voices in contemporary American literature turns her remarkable skills to the complex and compelling story of a serial killer and the people his…
A victim of gang rape and left for dead, the once vital and sexy Teena Maguire can now only regret that she has survived. At a relentless, compelling pace, the…
A new collection of stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, mysterious and surreal, and perfectly pitched for the confusion of the current political landscape –]cProvided by publisher.
Set in an apparently idyllic New England college town, Beasts is the story of Gillian Brauer, a student who falls in love with her professor, his Bohemian lifestyle, and antiestablishment…
Greg Johnson
These volumes provide instruction in how to read certain contemporary writers–identifying and explicating their material, themes, use of language, point of view, structures, symbolism, and responses to experience.
These twenty-five interviews with Joyce Carol Oates from early in her career to the present are the first such collection to be published. In conversations from sources as diverse as…
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Joyce Carole Oates, Lawrence Block
The Amber Waves of Autumn is the third installment in Kelp Journal's bestselling and award-winning beach noir series. In each collection, we include some of the biggest heavyweights in the…
Sandra Hunold
Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, Note: 1,5, Universitat Stuttgart (Amerikanistik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: I Einleitung Gotische Literatur, die haufig antike und mittelalterliche Zuge aufweist und…
Marilyn C. Wesley
This comprehensive and sophisticated feminist analysis contradicts the negative evaluations of earlier feminist critics to define Oates’ feminist accomplishments.
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Joyce Carol Oates’s Stalking, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A Study Guide for Joyce Carol Oates’s Them, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
First publication in Virago Modern Classics for one of Joyce Carol Oates’ finest novels, an electrifying novel told from the view point of a precocious, pathological teenager.
This taut collection stands at the crossroads of sex, violence, and longing - and asks us to interrogate the intersection of these impulses within ourselves. Six feverishly unsettling works.
Seven feverishly unsettling works, confronting the dangers that surround us and the dangers that lurk within.
La novela mas imaginativa, joven y distopica de Joyce Carol Oates.
Agarrate fuerte: esta es una obra sobrecogedora de principio a fin. - The Guardian
Una novela memorable. - Publishers…
An epic novel of an American family in the 1950s proves the tender division between what is permissible and what is taboo, between ordinary life and the secret places of…
La monumental y polemica nueva novela de la eterna candidata al Premio Nobel (Elena Hevia, El Periodico de Cataluna) es una profunda reflexion sobre el aborto y la pena de…
Jonathan Safran Foer and Robert Pinsky join Joyce Carol Oates and other illustrious writers to explore Jersey noir.
Joyce Carol Oates and other illustrious writers explore Jersey noir.
A completely new, fresh, and frightening take on prison literature.
Joyce Carol Oates pulls out all the stops in this chilling female-centric noir collection featuring brand-new writing from Margaret Atwood, Aimee Bender, Edwidge Danticat, and more.
A new collection of dark, chilling tales from the #1 New York Times Bestselling author
Joyce Carol Oates, the grand mistress of ghoulishness (Publishers Weekly), showcases her mastery in four deeply disturbing novellas that will leave the reader both quaking and pining for more
