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Veinte años de una de las novelas biográficas más emocionantes:la vida de Marilyn Monroe contada por Joyce Carol Oates.El libro en el que se basa la película homónima protagonizada por Ana de Armas, de proximo estreno, y uno de los 40 libros imprescindibles escritos por mujeres segun Elena FerranteUna de nuestras autoras favoritas, [...] indestructible, [...]Tiene una mirada super lucida y tremenda; tambien me gusta mucho el mito de Marilyn, del exito destructivo. [...] El libro es fantastico, como todo lo que hace ella.Carlos Zanon,Babelia, El PaisSocorro, siento que la Vida se acerca.Marilyn Monroe era puro fuego, sexualidad a flor de piel, romances turbulentos, pero tambien era una mujer fragil, asustada y repleta de inseguridades que buscaba en otros -en el Ex Deportista, en el Dramaturgo o en el Presidente- ese amor que ella misma se negaba. Una artista superdotada cargada de conflictos, temores y pasiones desatadas; una niña que no dejo de huir hacia delante y que llego a burlar a la propia muerte para convertirse en leyenda. Tras una exhaustiva documentacion, Joyce Carol Oates redibuja la vida interior de Norma Jeane Baker -la pequeña sin padre, la mujer dependiente de tranquilizantes y estimulantes, la actriz y amante malograda- y a su Amiga Magica del Espejo, la rubia idolatrada a la que el mundo llego a conocer como Marilyn Monroe.La critica ha dicho...¿Puede ser la seduccion innata ante una camara la fuente del nacimiento de un doble? O incluso, ¿puede la imagen capturada por la camara/espejo tomar cuerpo en la realidad, ante la mirada de deseo de los otros?Blondede Joyce Carol Oates ahonda indirectamente en estas cuestiones a traves de uno de los grandes iconos de la cultura popular del siglo XX.Alan Salvado,Diari de TarragonaNadie ha plasmado en palabras a Marilyn de una manera mas brillante que Oates.Sunday TimesOates nos hace vivir la vida de Marilyn Monroe. Y es un verdadero infierno. Y es brillante. Porque nos querremos arrancar los ojos para dejar de mirar, y es imposible.Ann Patchett,The TimesNovelistas como John Updike, Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe y Normal Mailer han luchado a brazo partido por el titulo de Gran Novelista Americano. Pero quizas se equivoca. Puede que ese titulo pertenezca a una mujer.TheHeraldBlonde es lo que todas las biografias de Monroe deberian ser pero no son: una reinvencion fabulosa de la vida de una reinvencion fabulosa, un espejo para nuestras vanidades colectivas y un libro que se devora.Evening StandardOates no ha tenido ningun miedo a la hora de abordar un asunto que atraviesa casi cualquier aspecto de la historia de mediados del siglo XX [...]. Un libro potente e hipnotico.LiteraryReviewUn logro epico, una obra maestra y una obra de arte concebida de un modo tan emocionante que a veces pareciera que es algo mas que meramente un libro.IndependentonSundayDramatica, provocativa e inquietantemente sugerente,Blonde es tan explosiva como su protagonista, la legendaria Marilyn Monroe. En una prosa impresionista de elevada potencia, Oates crea un retrato sorprendente y conmovedor de la estrella mitica y de la sociedad que la creo y le fallo.PublishersWeeklyUna magnifica obra, escrita con parte de esa frenetica inspiracion con la que Marilyn Monroe vivio su vida. Si no ha leido aun a Joyce Carol Oates, no lo deje por mas tiempo. Empiece aqui y ahora.Susan Jeffreys,TheIndependent

"Dolly e un'orfana, ufficialmente undicenne, che vive con il padre prostituendosi nei motel lungo il Mississippi: il patto con i clienti e che fara il bagno con loro, ma non potranno toccarla. Evidentemente folle, la ragazzina ogni tanto uccide un cliente, per tornare soddisfatta dal padre con un trofeo in mano. Gilead e un giovane di bell'aspetto, ma fortemente ritardato, che si affeziona a una donna che ha incontrato un giorno al parco con una carrozzina e incomincia a seguirla e a telefonarle. La donna dapprima si spaventa e rifiuta la sua corte, chiamando perfino la polizia e minacciando di difendersi da sola; poi, una sera, approfitta di lui per fargli ammazzare l'ex marito, vendicandosi cosi dell'abbandono. Agnes O'Dwyer, infermiera tra la fine degli anni Cinquanta e il 1974, uccide ""animata da cristiana pieta"" qualcosa come ventisei pazienti, ammazzandosi con un'iniezione letale per paura di essere scoperta dopo l'ultimo delitto e lasciando un diario cifrato col racconto delle sue gesta. "

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 enfa

Teena Maguire should not have tried to shortcut her way home that Fourth of July. Not after midnight, not through Rocky Point Park. Not the way she was dressed: tank top, denim cut-offs, high-heeled sandals. Not with her twelve-year-old daughter, Bethie. Not with packs of local guys running loose on hormones, rage, and alcohol. A victim of gang rape, left for dead in the park boathouse, the once vital and sexy Teena Maguire can now only regret that she has survived. And Bethie can barely remember a childhood uncolored by fear. For they're not even a neighborhood away, the men that she identified for the Niagara Falls Police Department: the wide-browed, sandy-haired Pick brothers; the sneering Jimmy DeLucca; Fritz Haaber with his moustache and stubbled jaw. They've killed her grandmother's longhaired orange cat. At a relentless, compelling pace punctuated by lonely cries in the night and the whisper of terror in the afternoon, National Book Award-winner Joyce Carol Oates unfolds the story of Teena and Bethie, their assailants, and their unexpected, silent champion, a man who knows the meaning of justice. And love.

A young wife is home alone when the phone rings in "So Help Me God." Is the strange voice flirting with her from the other end of the line her jealous husband laying a trap, or a stranger who knows entirely too much about her? In "Madison at Guignol" an unhappy fashionista discovers a secret door inside her favorite clothing store and insists the staff let her enter. But even her fevered imagination cannot anticipate the horror they have been hiding from her. In these and other gripping and disturbing tales, women are confronted by the evil around them and surprised by the evil they find within themselves. With wicked insight, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates why the females of the species-be they six-year-old girls, seemingly devoted wives, or aging mothers-are by nature more deadly than the males.

Joyce Carol Oates is one of the world's most respected living novelists. Her new novel brings us a tale of dark passions, prejudice, and the strange forms that love can take. A celebrated but reclusive author, young but in failing health, Joshua Seigl reluctantly realizes that he can no longer live alone. One day he encounters a young woman with synthetic-looking blond hair and pale, tattooed skin in a bookshop. She stirs something unidentifiable within him -- pity? desire? responsibility? He decides that Alma will be his assistant. An uneasy relationship begins, one which lurches between repulsion and attraction, between hate and love. Seigl is unaware that Alma has been shaped by abuse and misfortune. His kindness is baffling to her; his bookishness completely alien. She secretly harbours anti-Semitic thoughts; he quietly nurses his desire. With terrifying inevitability, their stories wind towards a shocking climax as both Alma and Seigl find themselves struggling to understand what their lives are worth. With her unique, masterful balance of dark suspense and surprising tenderness, Joyce Carol Oates conveys how easily and treacherously prejudice can snake its way into human relationships.

In the early 1970s, Gillian Brauer, a college student in Massachusetts, falls under the spell of her English professor and his wife, becoming involved with them not only sexually but in other ways. At the same time, an arsonist is loose on campus. And years later, Gillian, on a visit to the Louvre, sees a work of art that recalls the events of those years and forces her to remember things that were better forgotten.

An ingenious dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society When a recklessly idealistic girl in a dystopian future society dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled world, she is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America - `Wainscotia, Wisconsin' - that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town, she is set upon a course of `rehabilitation' - but she falls in love with a fellow exile and starts to question the constraints of her new existence, with results that are both devastating and liberating. Arresting and visionary, Hazards of Time Travel is an exquisitely wrought love story, a novel of harrowing discovery - and an oblique but powerful response to our current political climate.