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Joyce Carol Oates
From a master mind reader who writes psychological horror stories about seriously disturbed minds (New York Times Book Review), this gorgeously eerie story collection explores the deepest entwinings of lust…
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Two hitmen in a depressed rust belt town struggle with a job gone wrong. A girl witnesses a horrifying accident and carries it with her for the rest of her…
A young girl’s disappearance rocks a community and a family, in this stirring examination of grief, faith, justice and the atrocities of war, from literary legend Joyce Carol Oates.
The first novel from New York Times-bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a thrilling, dark tale of family, revenge, and two souls intertwined by love and violence–now back in print for…
Originally published: New York: Vanguard, 1964.
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 eerie, psychological thriller about a newlywed wife haunted by her secret, traumatic past.
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…
Follows a young woman from her early life on the run with her mother to her involvement with a cult and her struggle to free herself of its influence over…
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A psychologically complex thriller that examines the fine line between genius and madness.
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This unprecedented collection features the best of Oates’s short fiction, plus nine new stories.
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A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant. You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child…
When evangelical Luther Dunphy assassinates abortion doctor Augustus Vorhees, the two grieving families find their lives intricately linked.
A recklessly idealistic girl tests the limits of her oppressively controlled, dystopian world and is punished by being sent back in time to Wainscotia, Wisconsin, eighty years in the past…
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.
A new collection of dark, chilling tales from the #1 New York Times Bestselling author
When a woman mysteriously vanishes, her sister must tally up the clues to discover her fate.
In this collection of diverse stories, Joyce Carol Oates explores the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their independence in acts of…
A collection of crime and suspense tales by National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates.
A masterful novel about a violent crime and its reverberations throughout a community - as timely and relevant in 2019 as it was when first published in 2001
Oates’s chapter introductions and afterword on the writing workshop offer students encouragement, advice, and exercises for honing their skills.
As a teacher, Oates emphasizes the importance of reading widely with…
Oates’s most powerful work yet, now in a trade paper edition. Foxfire chronicles the life of five unforgettably real teenage girls in upstate New York in the 1950s. This controversial…
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
Arresting and poignant, My Life as a Rat traces a life of banishment from a family-banishment from parents, siblings, and the Church-that forces Violet to discover her own identity, to…
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…
One of America’s leading novelists pays tribute to horror genre master H.P Lovecraft in this collection of Lovecraft’s finest works.
A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we’d chosen a different path, from a master of the short story In this stirring, reflective collection of short…
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…
A dark mystery/suspense novel by Joyce Carol Oates. A woman investigates her sister's disappearance but all is not as it seems.
A brilliant and thought-provoking novel about family, loyalty and betrayal
From one of America’s most renowned storytellers comes a novel about love and deceit, and lust and redemption, against a background of child abductions in the affluent suburbs of Detroit.
A collection of thirteen spellbinding stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all.
From one of America’s best loved and most prolific novelists: the story of a woman coming to terms with the violent death of her mother, and uncovering all the hidden…
From the author of ‘Blonde’, ‘The Falls’ and ‘We Were the Mulvaneys’, this new novel takes in the themes of race, immigration, family and social mobility, and is Joyce Carol…
Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates blends sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power in her latest incendiary novel.
Two families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences.
The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society The bonds of family are tested in…
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‘America’s preeminent fiction writer’ New Yorker ‘A raw, propulsive tale of love and grief’ Mail on Sunday
A brilliant collection of short fiction from National Book Award winner and New York Times -bestselling author JOates, one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.
Through the words of his own ‘diary’, this title shows how Poe succumbs to existential loneliness during a sociological experiment in an isolated lighthouse, stranded for a year with no…
Examines the intimate lives of contemporary: the tangled ties between generations, the desperation - and the covert, radiant happiness - of loving more than one is loved in return. This…
Maps the surprising contours of ordinary life, exploring how the power of violence, loss, and grief shape both the psyche and the soul.