Libros de Joyce Carol Oates

Wild Nights!

• 288 páginas
• Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Samuel Clemens ("Mark Twain"), Henry James, Ernest Hemingway—Joyce Carol Oates evokes each of these American literary icons in her newest work of prose fiction, poignantly and audaciously reinventing...

Falls, The

Gravedigger's Daughter

• 600 páginas
• From the author of 'Blonde', 'The Falls' and 'We Were the Mulvaneys', this new novel takes in the themes of race, immigration, family and social mobility, and is Joyce Carol Oates at her storytelling best.

Black Girl / White Girl

• 272 páginas
• Fifteen years after the mysterious death of Minette Swift - a 19-year-old black girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive liberal arts college - her former roommate Genna begins an unofficial enquiry into the traumatic event. In reconstructin...

Big Mouth And Ugly Girl

• 272 páginas
• Joyce Carol Oates' erstes Jugendbuch hat ein sehr aktuelles Thema: Matt (Big Mouth) wird bezichtigt gedroht zu haben, einen Bombenanschlag auf seine high school verüben zu wollen. NurUrsula (Ugly Girl) ergreift Partei für ihn. Ein spannender...

Tales Of H. P. Lovecraft

• 368 páginas
• When he died in 1937, destitute and emotionally as well as physically ruined, H. P. Lovecraft had no idea that he would one day be celebrated as the godfather of modern horror. A dark visionary, his work would influence an entire generation of writers,...

Big Mouth And Ugly Girl

• 288 páginas
• Hard-hitting, page-turning and celebratory of friendship in unlikely circumstances, Joyce Carol Oates' sure touch with small town life hits home in her first young adult novel.

The Female Of The Species

• 275 páginas
• 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...

Mother, Missing

• 432 páginas
• When her mother uncharacteristically fails to return her phone calls, 31-year old Nikki Eaton calls in to check up on her. She finds the house turned upside-down, and her mother lying dead, murdered, on the garage floor. Single, sexually liberated and...

Black Girl/white Girl

• 304 páginas
• In 1975 Genna Hewett-Meade's college roommate died a mysterious, violent death partway through their freshman year. Minette Swift had been assertive, fiercely individualistic, and one of the few black girls at their exclusive, "enlightened"...

The Female Of The Species

Them

• 592 páginas
• “If the phrase ‘woman of letters’ existed, [Joyce Carol Oates] would be, foremost in this country, entitled to it.”—John Updike, The New Yorker

Missing Mom

• 464 páginas
• Nikki Eaton, single, thirty-one, sexually liberated, and economically self-supporting, has never particularly thought of herself as a daughter. Yet, following the unexpected loss of her mother, she undergoes a remarkable transformation during a tumultuous...

Beasts

• 160 páginas
• Set in an apparently idyllic New England college town, "Beasts" is the story of Gillian Brauer, a student who falls in love with her professor, his Bohemian lifestyle, and antiestablishment attitudes, and what happens when she falls under his...

The Falls

• 481 páginas
• A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. He's a newly-wed, and his bride has been left behind in the honeymoon suite the morning after their wedding. For two weeks, Ariah, the deserted bride, waits by the side of the roaring waterfal...

We Were The Mulvaneys

• 454 páginas
• Moving away from the dark tone of her more recent masterpieces, Joyce Carol Oates turns the tale of a family struggling to cope with its fall from grace into a deeply moving and unforgettable account of the vigor of hope and the power of love to prevail...

I'll Take You There

• 290 páginas
• Major literary novel from the author of )Blonde( and )Middle Age Now(. 7,000 copies sold in trade paperback. Paperback review coverage guaranteed. "..a massive literary heavyweight, and many earnestly believe she could knock out the other contenders...

Rape

• 160 páginas
• Talks about the brutality and cowardice that overtakes the city of Niagara Falls in the aftermath of an attack on a woman and her daughter. A dissection of modern mores, this is more than the story of Teena and Bethie, and their insolent assailants. It...

Freaky Green Eyes

• 222 páginas
• To the outside world, Franky Pierson is a lucky girl with a charmed life. With a celebrity dad - TV sports commentator, Reid Pierson - and beautiful artist mother, living in a state-of-the-art designer home and wanting for nothing, their world could be...

Unter Verdacht

• 302 páginas
• Niemals wäre Matt auf die absurde Idee gekommen, ein Attentat auf seine Schule zu verüben. Und doch soll es Zeugen geben, die schwören, er habe damit gedroht. Matt steht unter Verdacht. Und wie es scheint, gibt es nur einen Menschen an der...