"The Gravedigger's Daughter" von Joyce Carol Oates erzählt die bewegende Geschichte von Rebecca Schwart, deren Leben von ihrer schwierigen Kindheit bis zu ihrem Erwachsenwerden verfolgt wird. Rebecca wird in den 1930er Jahren als Tochter...

An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates ?Time travel? ? and its hazards?are made literal in this astonishing new...

Darren Flynn ist beliebt - die Mädchen finden ihn sexy, die Jungs halten ihn für einen guten Kumpel und die Lehrer glauben, er könne noch viel mehr als gut schwimmen. Nur er selbst weiß nicht so richtig, wer er ist und was er will. Doch...

Princeton, New Jersey, at the turn of the twentieth century: a genteel town for genteel souls. But something dark and dangerous lurks at its edges, corrupting and infecting its residents. Vampires and ghosts haunt the dreams of the...

"Later, I would think of it as crossing over. From a known territory into an unknown. From a place where people know you to a place where people only think they know you." Sometimes Franky Pierson has a hard time dealing with life. Like...

"Das Spukhaus: Erzählungen" von Joyce Carol Oates ist eine Sammlung von Geschichten, die sich mit dem Übernatürlichen und Psychologischen auseinandersetzen. In diesen Erzählungen erforscht Oates die dunklen Abgründe der menschlichen...

In a compelling tale of two families and an act of violence with far-reaching consequences, Oates compares the divisions in American society that recent politics has exposed, including discussions on abortion, gun crime and capital...

Beautiful Days von Oates, Joyce Carol

Set in an apparently idyllic New England college town, "Beasts" is the story of Gillian Brauer, a student who falls in love with her professor, his Bohemian lifestyle, and antiestablishment attitudes, and what happens when she falls...

An epic literary novel based around the life of the cultural icon that was Marilyn Monroe, which was published in hardback to great critical acclaim, and which will be backed with a major marketing campaign. ""Blonde" is an epic...

Es scheint, dass hier eine Verwechslung vorliegt. "Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray" ist ein berühmter Roman von Oscar Wilde, nicht von Joyce Carol Oates. Der Roman erzählt die Geschichte von Dorian Gray, einem jungen Mann, dessen Porträt auf...

Cressida Mayfield has gone missing. The desperate search yields but one clue; she was last seen in the company of Corporal Brett Kincaid, Iraq veteran - and the ex-fiancé of Cressida's sister. As the deeply traumatized Kincaid struggles...