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Ein eindrucksvolles Porträt der größten Hollywood-Legende des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts: Marilyn Monroe

1926 wird Norma Jeane Baker in Los Angeles geboren. Ihre Kindheit ist von Einsamkeit und Sehnsucht geprägt. Als junge Frau hat sie bereits verinnerlicht, dass es für sie nur einen Weg gibt, sich ihres Selbstwertes zu versichern: über das Begehren der Männer. Ab da beginnt die Verwandlung zur Kunstfigur Marilyn Monroe. Einfühlsam und sprachgewaltig erzählt Joyce Carol Oates in ihrem Roman von der...

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 price of repression in the life of a respected university president teetering on the precipice of a nervous breakdown. Like Daphne DuMaurier's gothic masterwork, Rebecca, and the classic ghost story, The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James, Oates's...

Celebrated author Joshua Seigl, an idiosyncratic bachelor and confirmed recluse--young but in failing health--reluctantly admits to himself that he must hire a live-in assistant to help him with his increasingly complicated professional and personal affairs. Then one day at the bookstore he encounters Alma, a young woman covered with bizarre tattoos, who stirs something inside him. Unaware of her torturous past--the abuses she's suffered, the wrongs she's committed, the virulent hatred that seethes within her--Seigl decides that she is the one, and he has no idea that he is bringing an...

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 Oates's 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...