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Joyce Carol Oates
From Joyce Carol Oates, one of America's most feted and critically acclaimed authors, a collection of mysterious, suspenseful, macabre and unsettling tales.
In her inimitable style, Oates takes the reader…
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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…
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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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Four dark and compelling novellas about love gone wrong.
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…
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…
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.
'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…
'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
Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers.
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A new collection of stories by one of America's greatest writers
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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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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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.
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…
Originally published: New York: Vanguard, 1964.
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.
Seven feverishly unsettling works about girls and women confronting the danger around them and the danger hidden inside their turbulent selves–some victimized, others provoked by deep emotional unrest to commit…
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.
This new collection, includes three full-length plays: Bad Girls, Black Water, The Passion of Henry David Thoreau, and eight shorter pieces. Bad Girls is the story of three teenage sisters…
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.
A collection of crime and suspense tales by National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates.
An eerie, psychological thriller about a newlywed wife haunted by her secret, traumatic past.
Originally published in 1984 by The Ontario Review Press.
Seven feverishly unsettling works, confronting the dangers that surround us and the dangers that lurk within.
A new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery and suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life.
Unavailable for 40 years, this seminal novel of madness and murder is acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates’ powerful trip into the mind of a maniac.
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…
When evangelical Luther Dunphy assassinates abortion doctor Augustus Vorhees, the two grieving families find their lives intricately linked.
