A dystopian novel about a woman's resistance to an oppressive society, obliquely responding to contemporary American life. von Oates, Joyce Carol

?Timely, monumental. . . . Yet another piercing examination of American culture by the writer this reviewer considers our country's greatest living novelist. . . . It is brilliant. How blessed we are to have her as a novelist in our...

'America's preeminent fiction writer' New Yorker 'A raw, propulsive tale of love and grief' Mail on Sunday von Oates, Joyce Carol

A collection of twenty-two disturbing tales of crime and suspense from literary icon Joyce Carol Oates, author of Blonde and 'America's preeminent fiction writer' (New Yorker). Two hitmen in a depressed rust belt town struggle with a job...

Unavailable for 40 years, this seminal novel of madness and murder is acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates' powerful trip into the mind of a maniac. Abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, shuttled from one abusive foster home and...

The Pursuit von Oates, Joyce Carol

A NOVEL OF LOVE AND LOSS FROM BESTSELLING AND PRIZEWINNING AUTHOR JOYCE CAROL OATESAmid a starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape in New Mexico, a married couple from Cambridge, MA takes residency at a distinguished academic institute....

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...

Freaky Green Eyes von Oates, Joyce Carol

In 1965, a young research scientist named Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes, the subject of her study, a handsome amnesiac who cannot remember anything beyond the last seventy seconds. Over the course of thirty years, the two embark on...

Joyce Carol Oates' erstes Jugendbuch hat ein sehr aktuelles Thema: Matt (Big Mouth) wird bezichtigt gedroht zu haben, einen Bombenanschlag auf seine High School verüben zu wollen. Nur Ursula (Ugly Girl) ergreift Partei für ihn. von...

A tough dissection of modern mores, this is more than the story of a woman and her young daughter and their insolent assailants. It is also the tale of their silent champion - a man who knows the meaning of justice, and love. von Oates,...