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Reveling in the uncanny and richly in conversation with other creative minds, Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense stands at the crossroads of sex, violence, and longing--and asks us to interrogate the intersection o...
No other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates. High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 gathers short fiction from the acclaimed author's seminal collections and includes eleven new tales ...
Between them, our great visionary poets of the American nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, have come to represent the extreme, idiosyncratic poles of the American psyche.... Dickinson never shied away ...
Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one's family ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it? The follows Violet Ru...
"A collection of psychologically daring, suspenseful stories"-- Provided by publisher.
The latest Ecco reissue of Joyce Carol Oates' early classics: a fiery gothic tale of doomed fates and demons of biblical proportions in rural New York state Nathan Vickery came into the world amid unfortunate circumstanc...
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 Joyce Carol Oates, "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nat...
This novel traces a life of banishment from a family--from parents, siblings, and the church--that forces Violet Rue Kerrigan to discover her own identity and to emerge transformed.
"Seven feverishly unsettling works about girls and women confronting the danger around them and the danger hidden inside their turbulent selves--some victimized, others provoked by deep emotional unrest to commit violenc...
A reckless girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly-controlled future world and is punished by being sent to a region of North America eighty years in the past.
In this ambitious book, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker -- the child, the woman, the fated celebrity and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Mo...
Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God's will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town while Augustus Voorhees, the idealistic doctor who is killed, leaves ...
Have you ever wanted something so badly you would kill for it? Identified only by the hastily -- and clumsily -- chosen alias Charles Brockden, the narrator of this story finds a bookstore that instantly piques his desir...
In 1965, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes, the "man without a shadow," who will be known, in time, as the most-studied and most famous amnesiac in history. A vicious infection has clouded anything beyond t...