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Joyce Carol Oates
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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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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Four dark and compelling novellas about love gone wrong.
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Seven feverishly unsettling works, confronting the dangers that surround us and the dangers that lurk within.
‘America’s preeminent fiction writer’ New Yorker
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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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 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 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 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
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…
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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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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Cengage Learning Gale
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.
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…
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…
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…
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 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 –
Features each year’s finalists from the annual $15,000 CVC Short Fiction competition, held in memory of Carter Cooper .
From masterful storyteller Oates comes an eerie, psychologically complex thriller about a newlywed wife haunted by her secret, traumatic past.
Regular print version previously published by Penzler Publishers/ The Mysterious Press.
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 new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, now in paperback.
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An exploration of the world of professional boxing, examining the subject from many angles: boxing as metaphor, spectacle and history, boxing as seen in literature and film and by women…
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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.
Twenty-two disturbing tales of crime and suspense from "America's preeminent fiction writer" (New Yorker)
This collection of fifty-two poems from the author of Angel Fire and Anonymous Sins explores the annihilation of the time-bound ego, a liberating, sometimes terrifying experience for all who live…
Originally published in 1984 by The Ontario Review Press.
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.
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 darkly compelling tales that force us to confront, one by one, the demons within.
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.
Like most important writers-Joyce, Proust, Mann-she has an absolute identification with her material: the spirit of a society at a crucial point in its history. -Walter Clemens, Newsweek
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.
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