When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanises her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades. von...

From Joyce Carol Oates, an exquisite, psychologically complex thriller about opposing forces within the mind of one ambitious writer and the delicate line between genius and madness. Andrew J. Rush has achieved the kind of critical and...

"The Oxford Book of American Short Stories," herausgegeben von Joyce Carol Oates, ist eine umfassende Anthologie, die einen breiten Überblick über die Entwicklung der amerikanischen Kurzgeschichte bietet. Die Sammlung umfasst Werke von...

Niemand hat Amerika so sehr den Puls gefühlt wie Joyce Carol Oates. Ihre Helden sind unsichere Existenzen. Männer werden zu Jägern und Frauen zu wehrlosen Wildtieren, die es zu erlegen gilt. Nicht immer endet es mit dem Tod, aber das...

A wealthy and notorious clan, the Bellefleurs live in a region not unlike the Adirondacks, in an enormous mansion on the shores of mythic Lake Noir. They own vast lands and profitable businesses, they employ their neighbors, and they...

A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we'd chosen a different path, from a master of the short storyIn this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other...

From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates, author of Blonde, now a major motion picture, comes a brand new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery and suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits...

"Mysteries of Winterthurn" von Joyce Carol Oates ist ein viktorianischer Kriminalroman, der in der fiktiven Stadt Winterthurn im späten 19. Jahrhundert spielt. Der Roman folgt dem jungen Detektiv Xavier Kilgarvan, der mit drei komplexen...

A Book of American Martyrs von Oates, Joyce Carol

The Sacrifice von Oates, Joyce Carol

A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five yearsJoyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute social consciousness, one of the most...

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 of the audacious Zinn sisters,...