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The first novel from New York Times-bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a thrilling, dark tale of family, revenge, and two souls intertwined by love and violence_now back in print for fans of Americas most prolific storyteller. Written when Joyce Ca

Two families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences. Gus Voorhees is a pioneer in the advancement of women's reproductive rights and a controversial abortion provider in the American Midwest. One morning as he arrives at his clinic, he is ambushed by a hardline Christian, Luther Dunphy, and shot dead. The killing leaves in its wake two fatherless families: the Voorheeses, who are affluent, highly educated, secular and pro-choice, and the Dunphys, their opposite on all counts. When the daughters of the two families, Naomi Voorhees and Dawn Dunphy, glimpse each other at the trial of Luther Dunphy, their initial response is mutual hatred. But their lives are tangled together forever by what has happened, and throughout the years to come and the events that follow, neither can quite forget the other. A heart-rending reckoning with some of the most incendiary issues that divide us in our troubled times - religious extremism; abortion; gun violence; capital punishment - this is a novel Joyce Carol Oates was born to write. To read it is to encounter the full spectrum of humanity - its ugliness, misery, beauty and hope.

Six terrifying tales to chill the blood from the unique imagination of Joyce Carol Oates.A young boy plays with dolls instead of action figures. But as he grows older, his passion takes on a darker edge...A white man shoots dead a black youth creating a media frenzy. But could it have been self-defense as he claims?A nervous woman tries to escape her husband. He says he loves her, but she's convinced he wants to kill her...These quietly lethal stories reveal the horrors that dwell within us all.

A woman, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, seated in front of the window in an apartment she cannot afford. In this exquisitely tense narrative reimagining of Edward Hopper's Eleven A.M., 1926, the reader enters the minds of both the woman and her m

Night Sleep Death The Stars is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all.

Si vous n'avez jamais lu de Oates, lisez celui-ci ! A la fin des années 1990, en Ohio, un médecin pratiquant des avortements est assassiné par un fanatique chrétien. C'est le point de départ d'un roman d'une rare puissance, sur une question qui dechire avec violence le peuple americain.

Originaire d’une petite ville miteuse, Katya Spivak passe l’été à faire du baby-sitting dans le quartier huppé de Bayhead Harbour, New Jersey. Elle oscille entre la naïveté de ses seize ans et le cyn

Dans une petite ville ouvrière de l'Etat de New York, dans les années 1950, cinq lycéennes forment une bande pour se venger des humiliations qu'elles ont subies : le gang des Foxfire. Il y a

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 literary legend Joyce Carol Oates. Zeno Mayfield's daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks. But when the community of Carthage joins a father's frantic search for the girl, they discover instead the unlikeliest of suspects - a decorated Iraq War veteran with close ties to the Mayfield family. As grisly evidence mounts against the troubled war hero, the family must wrestle with the possibility of having lost a daughter forever. 'Carthage' plunges us deep into the psyche of a wounded young Corporal, haunted by unspeakable acts of wartime aggression, while unraveling the story of a disaffected young girl whose exile from her family may have come long before her disappearance. Dark and riveting, 'Carthage' is a powerful addition to the Joyce Carol Oates canon, one that explores the human capacity for violence, love and forgiveness, and asks if it's ever truly possible to come home again.

Basada en un suceso real que sacudió al mundo, otra gran novela de la eterna candidata al premio Nobel, ganadora del Grand Prix de l'Herone Madame Figaro. "Oates revisa el asesinato de JonBenet Ramsey de un modo deslumbrante... Una de las mejores obras de esta oscura observadora de nuestras vidas y nuestro tiempo."Publishers Weekly Una madrugada, la adorable Miss Princesita de Hielo de Nueva Jersey y promesa del patinaje, aparece asesinada en el sotano de su casa de un barrio de clase alta de Fair Hills. Tenia seis años; su hermano Skyler, nueve, y apenas recuerda nada de aquella noche que lo cambio todo. Ahora, diez años mas tarde, escribe el porque de la infancia destrozada, la culpa, la ambicion desmedida y el infierno de la prensa sensacionalista: una historia que aclara las dudas y revela los oscuros secretos de su familia. ** Premio Ja! Bilbao por el "modernisimo humor negro" de su obra. La critica ha dicho..."Extraordinaria, controvertida... Si solo va a leer una novela esta temporada, esa deberia ser Hermana mia, mi amor."Baltimore Sun "La version de Oates posee una riqueza tan superior a lo que sabemos acerca de lo que sucedio realmente con JonBenet Ramsey

This eerie tale of psychological horror sees the real inhabitants of turn-of-the-century Princeton fall under the influence of a supernatural power. New Jersey, 1905: soon-to-be commander-in-chief Woodrow Wilson is president of Princeton University. On a nearby farm, Socialist author Upton Sinclair, enjoying the success of his novel 'The Jungle', has taken up residence with his family. This is a quiet, bookish community - elite, intellectual and indisputably privileged. But when a savage lynching in a nearby town is hushed up, a horrifying chain of events is initiated - until it becomes apparent that the families of Princeton have been beset by a powerful curse. The Devil has come to this little town and not a soul will be spared. 'The Accursed' marks new territory for the masterful Joyce Carol Oates - narrated with her unmistakable psychological insight, it combines beautifully transporting historical detail with chilling fantastical elements to stunning effect.

Daddy Love, aka Reverend Chester Cash, has for years abducted, tortured, and raped young boys. His latest victim is Robbie, now renamed 'Gideon', and brainwashed into believing that he is Daddy Love's real son. Any time the boy resists or rebels he is met with punishment beyond his wildest nightmares. As Robbie grows older he begins to realize that the longer he is locked in the shackles of this demon, the greater chance he'll end up like Daddy Love's other 'sons' who were never heard from again. Somewhere within this tortured boy lies a spark of rebellion...and soon he will see just what lengths he must go to in order to have any chance at survival.