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Gillian Brauner, brillante studentessa nei ruggenti anni Settanta, si innamora perdutamente di Andre Harrow, il carismatico e anticonformista professore del corso di poesia al college. Ma e attratta anche da Dorcas, la moglie di Andre, scultrice spregiudicata e intrigante. Ipnotizzata dalle loro esuberanti personalita, si lascia attrarre sempre piu dal loro mondo rarefatto, finendo con l''arrendersi alle loro raffinatezze gastronomiche, alle loro pastiglie fiabesche, alle loro carezze. Bestie e una storia di ossessioni e desideri in cui il romanzo gotico viene portato alla sua espressione piu intensa.

The words gothic and macabre rather than mystery and suspense might better describe the 10 beautifully told stories in this superb collection from the prolific Oates. Las palabras 'gótico' y 'macabro' pueden describir mejor que 'misterio' y 'suspense' estas diez historias delicadamente elaboradas en esta soberbia colección de la prolífica Oates.

Años cincuenta, alrededores de Nueva York… Cinco chicas de instituto forman una banda para hacerse fuertes y protegerse de una sociedad y un mundo hostiles… Maddy, narradora de la historia; Goldie, un temperamento salvaje disimulado por un cuerpo escultural; Lana, con su pelo a lo Marilyn; Rita, cuya humillación provoca el primer ajuste de cuentas de la banda; y sobre todo, Legs Sadovsky, belleza gélida, corazón rocoso, una joven llena de ira, de odio y de fuerza, una de las heroínas más vitales de la ficción moderna… Cinco adolescentes en una historia de violencia, abuso sexual, explotación y venganza…Una obra lírica y brutal al mismo tiempo, un retrato enérgico y emocionante del corazón oscuro de la sociedad norteamericana.

En 1936, los Schwarts, una familia de inmigrantes, desesperada por escapar a la Alemania nazi, se instala en una pequeña ciudad en el interior de Nueva York, donde el padre, un profesor de instituto, es rebajado al unico trabajo al que tiene acceso: sepulturero y vigilante de cementerio. Muy pronto los prejuicios de la ciudad y la propia fragilidad emocional de la familia tienen como consecuencia una tragedia indescriptible: la joven Rebeca Schwart, la hija del sepulturero, perdida y en un intento de dejar el pasado tras ella, se va a mover por toda America a traves de una serie de fracasos matrimoniales, en busqueda de algun lugar y alguien a quien poder pertenecer.Una gran novela americana: la historia de un personaje, Rebecca, que se reinvento a si misma.

A dark, wry, captivating tale, inspired by an unsolved American true crime mystery. My Sister, My Love is based on the controversial true-crime mystery of the JonBenet Ramsey murder. When a beautiful, ice-skating child prodigy is found brutally murdered, suspicion immediately mounts against friends, neighbours -- and even the young girl''s own family. Told from the point of view of the dead girl''s brother, and in the inimitable style and gripping voice that has long been Oates''s trademark, ''My Sister, My Love'' explores the darkest corners of the human psyche, and takes the reader into a twisted world that only the most daring and imaginative of novelists can capture.

Fifteen-year-old Katya Spivak is out for a walk on the streets of Bayhead Harbor, New Jersey, when she is approached by silver-haired, elegant Marcus Kidder At first his interest in her seems harmless The world he inhabits acts as a tonic to her drab existence And as a children's book writer, he seems to be a man she can trust His home is beautiful and he lavishes gifts on her...

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

Now out in paperback, a brilliant and unnerving collection of short stories from American literary master Joyce Carol Oates, full of her trademark acuity, intelligence, and darkness.From the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all.Insightful, disturbing, imaginative, and breathtaking in their lyrical precision, the stories in Lovely, Dark, Deep display Joyce Carol Oatess magnificent ability to make visceral the terror, hurt, and uncertainty that lurks at the edges of ordinary lives.In Mastiff, a woman and a man are joined in an erotic bond forged out of terror and gratitude. Sex with Camel explores how a sixteen-year-old boy realizes the depth of his love for his grandmotherand how vulnerable those feelings make him. Fearful that that her husband is disappearing from their life, a woman becomes obsessed with keeping him in her sight in The Disappearing. A Book of Martyrs reveals how the end of a pregnancy brings with it the end of a relationship. And in the title story, the elderly Robert Frost is visited by an interviewer, an unsettling young woman, who seems to know a good deal more about his life than she should.A piercing and evocative collection, Lovely, Dark, Deep reveals an artist at the height of her creative power.

Un soir de juillet à Carthage, Cressida Mayfield disparaît. Ses parents et sa sœur Juliet refusent d’imaginer le pire. Des cheveux et des traces de sang sont retrouvés dans la jeep de Brett, caporal

In the chilling world of Give Me Your Heart, the need for love is obsessive, self-destructive and unpredictable. It takes us to forbidden places, confronts us with gruesome truths, and leads us beyond our control.In the unsettling Strip Poker, a reckless teenage girl must turn the tables on a group of threatening young men. Can she outplay them? In the award-winning Smother! a daughters nightmarish childhood memory brings trouble to the door of her bourgeois mother. Which of them will win? In The First Husband, a jealous man discovers his wife lied about her first marriage, and plans a cruel revenge. Will he go through with it? In these and other powerful tales, children move beyond their parents reach, wives and husbands wake up as strangers, haunted pasts intrude upon uncertain futures, and lives hang in the balance. In ten razor-sharp stories, National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates shows that the most deadly mysteries often begin at home.

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.

From bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a taut and fascinating novel that examines the mysteries of human memory and personality 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 mirroring journeys of self-discovery. Margot, enthralled by her charming, mysterious, and deeply lonely patient, as well as her officious supervisor, attempts to unlock Eli's shuttered memories of a childhood trauma without losing her own sense of identity in the process. And Eli, haunted by memories of an unknown girl's body underneath the surface of a lake, pushes to finally know himself once again, despite potentially devastating consequences. As Margot and Eli meet over and over again, Joyce Carol Oates' tightly written, nearly clinical prose propels the lives of these two characters forwards, both suspended in a dream-like, shadowy present, and seemingly balanced on the thinnest, sharpest of lines between past and future. Made vivid by Oates' eye for detail and searing insight into the human psyche, The Man Without a Shadow is an eerie, ambitious, and structurally complex novel, as poignant as it is thrilling.

Seize nouvelles brutales et décapantes, parfois insoutenables. Certes, la prose de Joyce Carol Oates n'a jamais été conseillée en qualité de berceuse mais, en ce qui concerne ce recueil, les enfants auront interet a aller se coucher encore plus tot car, tres vite, Oates se montre sans pitie pour eux. Bien entendu, les veritables aficionados en redemanderont. La premiere tout comme la derniere nouvelle sont peut-etre a eviter pour les ames sensibles... s'il en existe encore. Oates a superbement disseque le chagrin et le choc provoques par la mort de son premier mari Ray Smith en 2008, et il n'est donc pas surprenant que la perte et le deuil soient les themes dominants de ce recueil rageur, dur et visceralement derangeant, ecrit au lendemain du malheur. On y cherchera en vain la resignation de la veuve : Oates semble determinee a nous convaincre que la femme en deuil est une sorte de coupable, une victime qui dans un sens merite tout ce qui lui arrive (et ce n'est pas toujours tendre). Mais meme si la demonstration peche par un rien d'exces, quel bonheur de lecture que ces pages qui font tomber les idoles et les cliches avec une sante, une energie - et une plume - d'une jeunesse

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

En 1936, los Schwart, una familia de inmigrantes desesperada por escapar de la Alemania nazi, se instala en una pequeña ciudad en el interior del Estado de Nueva York. El padre, un profesor de instituto, es rebajado al unico trabajo al que tiene acceso: sepulturero y vigilante de cementerio. Los prejuicios locales y la debilidad emocional de los Schwart suscitan una terrible tragedia familiar. Rebecca, la hija del sepulturero, comienza entonces su sorprendente peregrinacion por la America profunda, una odisea de riesgo erotico e intrepida imaginacion que la obligara a reinventarse a si misma.Una escritora de una extraordinaria fuerza Ha tratado con una admirable consistencia el gran tema americano: la busqueda de la propia identidad. The Guardian

Sixteen year-old Katya Spivak is out for a walk on the gracious streets of Bayhead Harbor with her two summer babysitting charges when she''s approached by silver-haired, elegant Marcus Kidder. At first, his interest in her seems harmless, even pleasant; like his name, a sort of gentle joke. His beautiful home, the children''s books that he''s wirtten, his classical music, the marvelous art in his study, his lavish presents to her: Mr. Kidder''s life couldn''t be more different from Katya''s drab working-class existence back home in South Jersey, or more enticing. But by degrees, almost imperceptibly, something changes, and posing for Mr. Kidder''s new painting isn''t the light-hearted endeavor it once was. What does he really want from her? And how far will he go to get it?

Originaires du Massachusetts, Michaela et Gerard, mariés depuis une dizaine d'années, s'installent pour huit mois dans un institut universitaire du Nouveau-Mexique. Mais quelques jours après leur arr