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Joyce Carol Oates
From the towering imagination of Joyce Carol Oates, literary icon and author of BLONDE, now a major motion picture, a suspenseful story about the complex relationship between two sisters.
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'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…
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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…
Seven feverishly unsettling works, confronting the dangers that surround us and the dangers that lurk within.
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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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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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'Oates's imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll's' Rose Tremain
Four dark and compelling novellas about love gone wrong.
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…
‘America’s preeminent fiction writer’ New Yorker
SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM, STARRING ANA DE ARMAS, ADRIEN BRODY, BOBBY CANNAVALE AND JULIANNE NICHOLSON, DIRECTED BY ANDREW DOMINIK ‘A torrentially imaginative, compulsively readable tour de force’…
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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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
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…
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.
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…
An eerie, psychological thriller about a newlywed wife haunted by her secret, traumatic past.
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…
Marilyn C. Wesley
This comprehensive and sophisticated feminist analysis contradicts the negative evaluations of earlier feminist critics to define Oates’ feminist accomplishments.
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…
From one of America's most renowned storytellers-the bestselling author of Blonde-comes a novel about love and deceit, and lust and redemption, against a backdrop of shocking murders in the affluent…
A Study Guide for Joyce Carol Oates’s Four Summers, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
Gavin Cologne-Brookes
Joyce Carol Oates is America’s most extraordinary and prolific woman of letters. Gavin Cologne-Brookes illuminates the vision of Oates, finding evidence in her novels of an evolving consciousness that forgoes…
Dorota Olivia Horvath
Explores the American novelist’s The Wonderland Quartet through a reading of the German philosopher’s seminal works. In the four books of The Wonderland Quartet Oates aestheticizes cultural experiments after the…
Nancy Ann Watanabe
This book demonstrates the greatness of Joyce Carol Oates, who is a nominee for a Nobel Award in Literature. Nancy Watanabe discusses Oates’s previously undiscovered roots in the literatures of…
A Study Guide for Joyce Carol Oates’s We Were the Mulvaneys, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
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…
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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…
A taut novella combining folklore, adolescent insecurity and blood sacrifice, plus six other, nightmarish, stories.
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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
A new collection of dark, chilling tales from the #1 New York Times Bestselling author
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…
At the heart of this … collection are girls and women confronting the danger around them, and the danger hidden inside their turbulent selves –
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…
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.
In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories , Joyce Carol Oates offers a survey of American short fiction, in a collection of fifty-nine tales that invites readers to explore…
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…
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.
A collection of crime and suspense tales by National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates.
A chilling female-centric noir collection featuring brand new writinf from Margaret Atwood and edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
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