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Written with the raw honesty and poignant insight that were the hallmarks of her acclaimed bestseller A Widow's Story, an affecting and observant memoir of growing up from one of our finest and most beloved literary masters.

The Lost Landscape is Joyce Carol Oates' vivid chronicle of her hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State. From memories of her relatives, to those of a charming bond with a special red hen on her family farm; from her first friendships to her earliest experiences with death, The Lost Landscape is a powerful evocation of...

Der gefeierte neue Roman von Joyce Carol Oates und »definitiv eines ihrer besten Bücher« (Observer).

Detroit, in den späten 1970ern: Hannah, Ehefrau und Mutter, beginnt eine Affäre mit einem gefährlichen Fremden; Mikey, der sich mit zwielichtigen Aufträgen durchschlägt, beschließt, sich endlich seiner traumatischen Vergangenheit zu stellen; und dann ist da dieser Serienkiller, der als Mörder kleiner Kinder unter dem Namen Babysitter Berühmtheit erlangt - eine rätselhafte Figur mit augenscheinlichen Verbindungen zur Elite Detroits, der jedoch bisher jeglicher...

"Oates is just a fearless writer...with her brave heart and her impossibly lush and dead-on imaginative powers."
--Los Angeles Times

" An] extraordinarily intense, racking, and resonant novel."
--Booklist (starred review)

One of the most acclaimed writers in the world today, the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates follows up her searing, New York Times bestselling memoir, A Widow's Story, with an extraordinary new work of fiction. Mudwoman is a riveting psychological thriller, taut with dark suspense, that explores the high...

"Anellia" is a young student who, though gifted with a penetrating intelligence, is drastically inclined to obsession. Funny, mordant, and compulsive, she falls passionately in love with a brilliant yet elusive black philosophy student. But she is tested most severely by a figure out of her past she'd long believed dead.

Astonishingly intimate and unsparing, and pitiless in exposing the follies of the time, I'll Take You There is a dramatic revelation of the risks--and curious rewards--of the obsessive personality as well as a testament to the stubborn strength of a certain...

A mesmerizing novel that examines grief, faith, justice, and the atrocities of war through the story of a young girl's disappearance in a small adirondack town

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 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...

Detroit, in den späten 1970ern: Hannah, Ehefrau und Mutter, beginnt eine Affäre mit einem gefährlichen Fremden; Mikey, der sich mit zwielichtigen Aufträgen durchschlägt, beschließt, sich endlich seiner traumatischen Vergangenheit zu stellen; und dann ist da dieser Serienkiller, der als Mörder kleiner Kinder unter dem Namen Babysitter Berühmtheit erlangt - eine rätselhafte Figur mit augenscheinlichen Verbindungen zur Elite Detroits, der jedoch bisher jeglicher Vergeltung entkam.
Während Hannah dem Mann, den sie nur unter dem Namen Y. K. kennt, zunehmend verfällt, scheint auch...

I Am No One You Know contains nineteen startling stories that bear witness to the remarkably varied lives of Americans of our time. In "Fire," a troubled young wife discovers a rare, radiant happiness in an adulterous relationship. In "Curly Red," a girl makes a decision to reveal a family secret, and changes her life irrevocably. In "The Girl with the Blackened Eye," selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2001, a girl pushed to an even greater extreme of courage and desperation manages to survive her abduction by a serial killer. And in "Three Girls," two adventuresome...