Books by Joyce Carol Oates (8)


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Black Dahlia & White Rose : Stories by Joyce Carol Oates EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
A collection of eleven stories explores the slippage between fantasy and everyday life, the commingling of sexual love and violence, and the complexity of family life.

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Butcher : A novel by Joyce Carol Oates EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’s asylum in the nineteenth century, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world In this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, “Father of Gyno-Psychiatry,” as he ascends from professional anonymity to national renown. Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics, where he reigns. There, he is allowed to continue his practice, unchecked for decades, m... continue

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Fox by Joyce Carol Oates EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
An “enthralling” (Los Angeles Times) novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school—by the legendary author “who is surely on any shortlist of America’s greatest living writers” (The New York Times Magazine) “Eerie, shocking, provoking, and beautifully written, Fox is yet further proof Oates is one of the greatest writers among us today.”—Gillian Flynn “I found it mesmerizing front to back.”—Michael Connelly “I can’t remember the last time I read something so (dark... continue

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Jack of Spades : A Tale of Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
Enjoying his successful career and devoted family, a best-selling writer secretly authors a masochist-themed series that threatens his respectable community standing and becomes subject to a plagiarism lawsuit. By the award-winning author of We Were the Mulvaneys.

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Minha vida de rata by Joyce Carol Oates PT

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
O que deve prevalecer: a lealdade à família ou à verdade? Será que dizer a verdade é sempre um erro e mentir pela família é sempre justificável? É possível fazer o que é certo, mas se arrepender amargamente? Em uma sucessão de episódios vividamente rememorados, Violet Rue contempla as circunstâncias de quando ainda era a adorada filha mais nova dos Kerrigan. Até que seus irmãos assassinam brutalmente um adolescente negro e ela os denuncia para a polícia. Expulsa de casa, e rejeitada pela família, Violet passa sua vida consumida pela culpa e presa à fugidia esperança de retornar ao lar. A premi... continue

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The (Other) You : Stories by Joyce Carol Oates EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we'd chosen a different path, from a master of the short story In this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might have led if we'd made different choices. An accomplished writer returns to her childhood home of Yewville, but the homecoming stirs troubled thoughts about the person she might have been if she'd never left. A man in prison contemplates the gravity of his irreversible act. A student's affair with a professor results in a pregnancy that alters the... continue

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The Lost Landscape : A Writer's Coming of Age by Joyce Carol Oates EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Description:
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 the romance of childhood, and its indel... continue

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We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates EN

Rating: 4.5 (2 votes)
Description:
An Oprah Book Club® selection A New York Times Notable Book The Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet. But something happens on Valentine’s Day, 1976—an incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of in the Mulvaney home—that rends the fabric of their family life...with tragic consequences. Years later, the youngest son attempts to piece together the fragments of the Mulvaneys’ former glory, seeking to uncover and understand the secret violation that brought about the family’s tragic downfall. Profoundly cathartic, this extraordinary novel unfolds as if Oates, in plumb... continue