In The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, Joyce Carol Oates evokes the fascination of the abomination that is at the core of the most profound, the most unsettling, and…

A chronicle of the author’s hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State describes the family members, first friendships, and early experiences with death that shaped her literary career.

In her first novel for young adults, acclaimed author Oates creates a provocative and unflinching story of friendship and family, loyalty and betrayal that hits close to home.

Mythic in scope and ballad-like in the telling, My Heart Laid Bare is the sweeping saga of the fortunes and misfortunes of a family of enterprising confidence artists in 19th-century…

Finally returned to print in a beautiful new trade paperback edition, comes Joyce Carol Oates’ lost classic: a satirical, often surreal, and beautifully plotted Gothic Romance that follows the exploits…

Missing Mom is the story of Nikki Eaton, a liberated 31-year-old woman who never thought of herself as a daughter until the sudden loss of her mother. After a tumultuous…

In American Appetites, the faade of an affluent suburban couple crumbles under the weight of tragedy and scandal. When Ian McCullough accidentally pushes his wife, Glynnis, through a plate glass…

Un quartier populaire d'une petite ville ouvriere de l'Etat de New York dans les annees 1950. Cinq lyceennes - Maddy, la narratrice, Goldie, Lana, Rita et Legs -, pour survivre…