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"From one of the most important contemporary American writers, Cardiff, by the Sea is a bold, haunting collection of four previously unpublished novellas. Starting with the title novella-in which a romantic-minded young ...
"The book opens with a woman, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, seated in front of the window in an apartment she cannot, on her own, afford. In this exquisitely tense narrative reimagining of Edward Hopper's Eleve...
"A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien". The diverse stories of Beautiful Days explore the most secret, intim...
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The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society by one of our most enduringly popular and important writers. A gripping examination of contemporary Am...
Cherie, a beloved cat, becomes very jealous when Cleopatra, a kitten, comes to live with her family.
An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society. Arresting and visionary, 'Hazards of Time Travel' is both a novel of harrowing discovery and an exquisitely ...
"As a child, Abby had the same recurring nightmare night after night, in which she wandered through a field ridden with human skulls and bones. Now an adult, Abby thinks she's outgrown her demons until, the evening befor...
Enjoying his successful career and devoted family, a best-selling writer secretly authors a masochist-themed series that threatens his respectable community standing and becomes subject to a plagiarism lawsuit.
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.
While studying Elihu Hoopes, the most famous amnesiac in history, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe embarks on an illicit relationship with her subject.
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.
Violet Rue is the baby of the seven Kerrigan children and adores her big brothers. What's more, she knows that a family protects its own. To go outside the family-- to betray the family-- is unforgivable. So when she ove...
The primary suspects in the murder of Zoe Kruller are her estranged husband, Delray Kruller and her lover, Eddy Diehl. But it is the children, Aaron Kruller and Krista Diehl who become the focus of the story as they beco...
"Joyce Carol Oates is renowned for her rare ability to "illuminate the mind's most disturbing corners" (Seattle Times). That genius is on full display in her new collection of seven feverishly unsettling works, DIS MEM B...
A brutal act of racial violence against a fourteen-year-old girl shocks and galvanizes a racially torn New Jersey community, which becomes a maelstrom of strong personalities, police responses, media hype, and secrets.
Abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, shuttled from one abusive foster home and detention center to another, Bobbie Gotteson grew up angry, hurting, damaged. His hunger to succeed as a musician brought him across ...
An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society. Arresting and visionary, 'Hazards of Time Travel' is both a novel of harrowing discovery and an exquisitely ...