From bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a taut and fascinating novel that examines the mysteries of human memory and personality In 1965, a young research scientist named Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes, the subject of her study, a handsome amnesiac who cannot remember anything beyond the last seventy seconds. Over the course of thirty years, the two embark on mirroring journeys of self-discovery. Margot, enthralled by her charming, mysterious, and deeply lonely patient, as well as her officious supervisor, attempts to unlock Eli’s shuttered memories of a childhood trauma without losing her own sense of identity in the process. And Eli, haunted by memories of an unknown girl’s body underneath the surface of a lake, pushes to finally know himself once again, despite potentially devastating consequences. As Margot and Eli meet over and over again, Joyce Carol Oates’ tightly written, nearly clinical prose propels the lives of these two characters forwards, both suspended in a dream-like, shadowy present, and seemingly balanced on the thinnest, sharpest of lines between past and future. Made vivid by Oates’ eye for detail and searing insight into the human psyche, The Man Without a Shadow is an eerie, ambitious, and structurally complex novel, as poignant as it is thrilling.

The Man Without a Shadow

“Oates is a fearless writer.” —Los Angeles Times “Oates is a master of the dark tale—stories of the hunted and the hunter, of violence, trauma, and deep psychic wounds.” —Booklist (starred review) Sourland is a gripping, haunting, and intensely moving collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates, one of America’s preeminent authors. Unforgettable tales that re-imagine the meaning of loss—often through violent means—Sourland is yet another extraordinary read from the literary icon who has previously brought us The Gravedigger’s Daughter, Blonde, We Were the Mulvaneys, and numerous other classic works of contemporary fiction.

Sourland

A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning “Undocumented Alien”. The diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explore the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves, who assert their independence in acts of bold and often irrevocable defiance. “Fleuve Bleu” exemplifies the rich sensuousness of Oates's prose as lovers married to other persons vow to establish, in their intimacy, a ruthlessly honest, truth-telling authenticity missing elsewhere in their complicated lives, with unexpected results.  In “Big Burnt,” set on lushly rendered Lake George, in the Adirondacks, a cunningly manipulative university professor exploits a too-trusting woman in a way she could never have anticipated. “The Nice Girl” depicts a young woman who has been, through her life, infuriatingly “nice,” until she is forced to come to terms with the raw desperation of her deepest self. In a more experimental but no less intimate mode, “Les beaux jours” examines the ambiguities of an intensely erotic, exploitative relationship between a “master” artist and his adoring young female model. And the tragic “Undocumented Alien” depicts a young African student enrolled in an American university who is suddenly stripped of his student visa and forced to undergo a terrifying test of courage. In these stories, as elsewhere in her fiction, Joyce Carol Oates exhibits her fascination with the social, psychological, and moral boundaries that govern our behavior-until the hour when they do not.

Beautiful Days

In the chilling world of Give Me Your Heart, the need for love is obsessive, self-destructive and unpredictable. It takes us to forbidden places, confronts us with gruesome truths, and leads us beyond our control. In the unsettling 'Strip Poker,' a reckless teenage girl must turn the tables on a group of threatening young men. Can she outplay them? In the award-winning 'Smother!' a daughter's nightmarish childhood memory brings trouble to the door of her bourgeois mother. Which of them will win? In 'The First Husband,' a jealous man discovers his wife lied about her first marriage, and plans a cruel revenge. Will he go through with it? In these and other powerful tales, children move beyond their parents' reach, wives and husbands wake up as strangers, haunted pasts intrude upon uncertain futures, and lives hang in the balance. In ten razor-sharp stories, National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates shows that the most deadly mysteries often begin at home.

Give Me Your Heart

The National Book Award finalist and national bestseller exploring the life and legend of Marilyn Monroe Soon to be a Netflix Film starring Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne Nicholson In one of her most ambitious works, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker—the child, the woman, the fated celebrity, and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice startlingly intimate and rich, Norma Jeane tells her own story of an emblematic American artist—intensely conflicted and driven—who had lost her way. A powerful portrait of Hollywood’s myth and an extraordinary woman’s heartbreaking reality, Blonde is a sweeping epic that pays tribute to the elusive magic and devastation behind the creation of the great 20th-century American star.

Blonde

“A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant. You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs?” --Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a Rat Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one’s family ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it? My Life as a Rat follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers. In a succession of vividly recalled episodes Violet contemplates the circumstances of her life as the initially beloved youngest child of seven Kerrigan children who inadvertently “informs” on her brothers, setting into motion their arrests and convictions and her own long estrangement. Arresting and poignant, My Life as a Rat traces a life of banishment from a family—banishment from parents, siblings, and the Church—that forces Violet to discover her own identity, to break the powerful spell of family, and to emerge from her long exile as a “rat” into a transformed life.

My Life as a Rat

A provocative, unprecedented anthology featuring original short stories on what it means to be an American from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen: “This chorus of brilliant voices articulating the shape and texture of contemporary America makes for necessary reading” (Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies). When Donald Trump claimed victory in the November 2016 election, the US literary and art world erupted in indignation. Many of America’s preeminent writers and artists are stridently opposed to the administration’s agenda and executive orders—and they’re not about to go gentle into that good night. In this “masterful literary achievement” (Kurt Eichenwald, author of Conspiracy of Fools), more than thirty of the most acclaimed writers at work today consider the fundamental ideals of a free, just, and compassionate democracy through fiction in an anthology that “promises to be both a powerful tool in the fight to uphold our values and a tribute to the remarkable voices behind it” (Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the ACLU). With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and edited by bestselling author Jonathan Santlofer, this powerful anthology includes original, striking art from fourteen of the country’s most celebrated artists, cartoonists, and graphic novelists, including Art Spiegelman, Roz Chast, Marilyn Minter, and Eric Fischl. Transcendent, urgent, and ultimately hopeful, It Occurs to Me That I Am America takes back the narrative of what it means to be an American in the 21st century.

It Occurs to Me That I Am America

In diesem Band mit vier bisher unveröffentlichten großen Erzählungen der bekannten Autorin werdendie Leser wieder einmal in eine Welt schaurig-spannender, psychologisch reizvoller Beziehungen befördert. Auslöser sind Vorfälle, die jedem von uns geläufig sind, sei es aus persönlicher Erfahrung oder durch Medienberichte. Da ist der Telefonanruf eines Fremden – soll ich den Anruf annehmen oder besser nicht? –, eine zugelaufene, herumstreunende Katze – kann sie die Rettung sein? –, die Beziehung einer jungen Studentin zu ihrem Mentor oder ein ungeklärter Selbstmord. In jeder dieser Erzählungen entspinnt sich zwischen den Protagonisten ein psychologisches Geflecht, das Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, Gedanken und Handlungen miteinander verflicht. Im Zentrum stehen bei Oates die bedrohlichen Erlebnisse junger Frauen, die sich in der Gegenwart mit Geschehnissen aus ihrer Vergangenheit auseinandersetzen müssen. Mit dieser Zusammenstellung ist es dem US-Verleger in einem geschickten Schachzug gelungen, Oates' Herzensanliegen – nämlich aufzuzeigen, wie Frauen in einer häufig psychisch und körperlich brutalen Männerwelt bestehen – in einem kompakten, inhaltlich stringenten Erzählband auf den Punkt zu bringen. Die Erzählungen sind spannend, überraschend, bemerkenswert. Die roten Fäden, die sich vom ersten Satz bis zur endgültigen Auflösung auf der letzten Seite durch die Geschichten ziehen, sind sprachlich fein durchdacht und auf höchstem literarischen Niveau.

Cardiff am Meer

Für ihn ist immer alles Gegenwart: 1965 lernt die junge   Neurowissenschaftlerin Margot an der Universität von Darven Park den   charismatischen Patienten Eli kennen. Er leidet an Gedächtnisverlust  und  kann sich nur an Dinge erinnern, die nicht länger als siebzig  Sekunden  zurückliegen. Margot beginnt, Elis Erinnerungsvermögen mit  einer Reihe  von Tests zu untersuchen, und kommt dem ungewöhnlichen  Patienten im  Laufe der Zeit erstaunlich nahe. Eine unmögliche  Beziehung, denn er  vergisst immer wieder, wer sie ist. Joyce Carol  Oates hat einen Roman  über Liebe und Erinnerung, über Einsamkeit und  imaginierte Nähe  geschrieben – luzide, feinsinnig, funkelnd.

Der Mann ohne Schatten

Sieben Kurzgeschichten aus der Feder von Amerikas Ikone und Bestseller-Autorin mit Auszeichnung Joyce Carol Oates. Diese Psycho-Spannung mit Annäherung ans Horror-Genre beweist aufs Neue, dass Joyce Carol Oates eine Meisterin ist, ihre Leser in literarische Albträume zu entführen: Ein Kind verschwindet, was zum Auslöser für eine Hexenjagd auf seinen Lehrer wird; ein abgehalfterter Weiberheld trifft am Ufer eines verlassenen Flussbettes auf seine rachsüchtige Stieftochter; ein eifersüchtiges kleines Mädchen freundet sich mit einer unheimlichen Katze an; ein Zwillingsbruder-Paar kämpft schon im Mutterleib um den besten Platz im Leben; ein Mann plant den Mord an seinem ebenso charmanten wie egoistischen Bruder; eine Witwe mittleren Alters zahlt einen hohen Preis, um nicht alleine zu sein und ein Schönheitschirurg lässt sich von einer seiner Patientinnen zu einem irrsinnigen Eingriff überreden. Die sieben Geschichten sind: - Die Maisjungfer - Beersheba - Niemand weiß, wie ich heiß - Fossile Figuren - Totenmahl - Helfende Hände - Loch im Kopf »Zwar sind ganz klar die Schatten Poes und Hitchcocks über diesen Geschichten wahrnehmbar, doch ist Oates auch allein bereits eine Meisterin darin, den Leser das Grauen zu lehren.« Kirkus Reviews

Sieben Reisen in den Abgrund

Genie und Wahnsinn: ein Thriller auf höchstem Niveau von Amerikas Literatur-Ikone Joyce Carol Oates Unter dem Pseudonym 'Pik-Bube' verfasst der renommierte Schriftsteller Andrew Rush düster-verstörende Thriller. So leicht ihm das Schreiben dieser rauschhaften Gewaltfantasien weit nach Mitternacht von der Hand geht, so verschwommen ist später seine Erinnerung an den Inhalt. Als ein Plagiatsvorwurf Rushs guten Ruf - und damit seine Existenz und seine Familie - bedroht, ist plötzlich 'Pik-Bube' mit hinterhältigen Ratschlägen zur Stelle. Und fast gegen seinen Willen beginnt Rush ihnen zu folgen ... 'Nur wenige Autoren leuchten die dunkelsten Winkel des menschlichen Geistes derart gekonnt aus.' Seattle Times

Pik-Bube (Ungekürzt)

La Franky creix a Seattle en una família privilegiada: el seu pare és un comentarista esportiu molt famós i la seva mare és artista i molt afectuosa. Tot a la vida dels Pierson va de meravella, des de l'estil de vida extravagant en una mansió de disseny fins a les escoles privades i les vacances a les cases elegants de platja dels seus amics rics. Però quan els pares de la Franky se separen perquè la mare decideix marxar de casa, ella pren partit pel seu pare sense relacionar la fugida de la mare amb el caràcter violent i controlador del pare. Només quan els esdeveniments arriben a un punt culminant, la Franky s'adona que ha d'emprendre una dolorosa recerca de la veritat, tot i que això impliqui deixar enrere la seva infantesa.

Ulls verds

"Marya" er en intens, virkelighedsnær skildring af en moderne kvinde, der konstant søger en dybere forståelse af sig selv for at opnå det ultimative mål, selvrealisering. Det er måske den mest personlige og mest fascinerende af Joyce Carol Oates‘ romaner. Vi følger Marya Knauer på forskellige trin i hendes udvikling, fra den tidligste barndom præget af vold og fattigdom til hun midt i trediverne som berømt kritiker og intellektuel kommentator tilsyneladende allerede har nået tinderne. Hele tiden betages man af hendes person, og hendes livsforløb synes lige så uforudsigeligt og – i tilbageblik – lige så uundgåeligt som livet selv. Joyce Carol Oates (f.1938) er en amerikansk forfatter, digter, dramatiker, litteraturanmelder og redaktør. Joyce Carol Oates har et stort og velrenommeret forfatterskab bag sig med over 100 titler i bagagen. Joyce Carol Oates er især kendt for sin skildring af det amerikanske samfund og den vold, der eksisterer mellem de forskellige sociale og etniske grupper og mellem kønnene. Hun er siden sin debut i 1963 blevet hædret med flere priser og nomineringer. Blandt andet har hun vundet The National Book Award og været nomineret til en Pulitzer Prize hele fem gange.

Marya

"Foxfire" er de fiktive erindringer fortalt af Madeleine, eller Maddy, som hun kaldes, der i sine unge dage var med i pigebanden Foxfire. Gruppens leder er den karismatiske og idealistiske Margaret, der er god til at sætte gang i gaden. Nogle gange lidt for god. Pigerne bor sammen i et hus, men har svært ved at skaffe penge til dagen og vejen. Margaret kommer imidlertid på en lusket plan, hvor de skal bortføre en lokal rigmand. Men bortførelsen går ikke som planlagt, og pludselig står gruppen uden en leder. Joyce Carole Oats (f. 1938) er en amerikansk forfatter, digter, dramatiker, litteraturanmelder og redaktør. Joyce Carole Oats har et stort og velrenommeret forfatterskab bag sig med over 100 titler i bagagen. Joyce Carole Oats er især kendt for sin skildring af det amerikanske samfund og den vold, der eksisterer mellem de forskellige sociale og etniske grupper og mellem kønnene. Hun er siden sin debut i 1963 blevet hædret med flere priser og norminereringer. Blandt andet har hun vundet The National Book Award og været normineret til en Pulitzer Prize hele fem gange. Joyce Carole Oats (f.1938) er en amerikansk forfatter, digter, dramatiker, litteraturanmelder og redaktør. Joyce Carole Oats har et stort og velrenommeret forfatterskab bag sig med over 100 titler i bagagen. Joyce Carole Oats er især kendt for sin skildring af det amerikanske samfund og den vold, der eksisterer mellem de forskellige sociale og etniske grupper og mellem kønnene. Hun er siden sin debut i 1963 blevet hædret med flere priser og norminereringer. Blandt andet har hun vundet The National Book Award og været normineret til en Pulitzer Prize hele fem gange.

Foxfire. En pigebandes bekendelser

"You must remember this" foregår i 1950‘ernes USA, under Korea-krigen, i McCarthy-periodens hysteri med kommunistforskrækkelse og –angivelser. Handlingen er koncentreret omkring familien Stevick. I bogens centrum tegner sig det lidenskabelige forhold mellem familiens yngste, skolepigen Enid Maria, og hendes fars yngre bror, Felix. Han er en rastløs, kynisk charmør og tidligere bokser, nu ejendomsspekulant, der færdes i de mere tvivlsomme miljøer. Det, der for Enid Maria og Felix begynder som en leg, udvikler sig hurtigt til et umætteligt sexbehov, en næsten skæbnesvanger besættelse, som får afløb i hurtige biler, snuskede moteller og åndeløse møder. Deres incestuøse forhold er i virkeligheden tidløst. "You must remember this" er en uforglemmelig analyse af den livsvilje, der bryder konformiteten i sin stræben efter lykken, fuldbyrdelsen – livet selv. Romanen er en hyldest til menneskets ufattelig evne til overlevelse. Joyce Carol Oates (f.1938) er en amerikansk forfatter, digter, dramatiker, litteraturanmelder og redaktør. Joyce Carol Oates har et stort og velrenommeret forfatterskab bag sig med over 100 titler i bagagen. Joyce Carol Oates er især kendt for sin skildring af det amerikanske samfund og den vold, der eksisterer mellem de forskellige sociale og etniske grupper og mellem kønnene. Hun er siden sin debut i 1963 blevet hædret med flere priser og nomineringer. Blandt andet har hun vundet The National Book Award og været nomineret til en Pulitzer Prize hele fem gange.

You must remember this

Blandt venner og bekendte er Ian og Glynnis McCullough et elsket og beundret par. Efter 26 års ægteskab kan de med rette betragte sig selv som højdepunktet af den amerikanske drøm om succes. Men nu, da Ian nærmer sig de 50, begynder ægteskabet så småt at krakelere – akkurat som den amerikanske drøm. Den succes, som før var målet, bliver nu selve problemet: alle planerne og drømmene er ført ud i livet og gået i opfyldelse – tilbage er ambitionerne, som imidlertid ikke længere har noget reelt indhold. Glynnis lever en tid i lykkelig uvidenhed om, hvad der er ved at ske. Hun taler stolt og selvsikkert om "mit ægteskab", "mit hjem", "min mand" og "mit liv". – Indtil situationen en dag eksploderer i blind vold – en katastrofe i det lille idylliske samfund, hvor kun gode ting kan ske. Skandale og tragedie, begær, jalousi og vold er hovedingredienserne i denne Joyce Carol Oates‘ hidtil mest provokerende roman. Joyce Carol Oates (f.1938) er en amerikansk forfatter, digter, dramatiker, litteraturanmelder og redaktør. Joyce Carol Oates har et stort og velrenommeret forfatterskab bag sig med over 100 titler i bagagen. Joyce Carol Oates er især kendt for sin skildring af det amerikanske samfund og den vold, der eksisterer mellem de forskellige sociale og etniske grupper og mellem kønnene. Hun er siden sin debut i 1963 blevet hædret med flere priser og nomineringer. Blandt andet har hun vundet The National Book Award og været nomineret til en Pulitzer Prize hele fem gange.

Forførende fristelser

"Foxfire" er de fiktive erindringer fortalt af Madeleine, eller Maddy, som hun kaldes, der i sine unge dage var med i pigebanden Foxfire. Gruppens leder er den karismatiske og idealistiske Margaret, der er god til at sætte gang i gaden. Nogle gange lidt for god. Pigerne bor sammen i et hus, men har svært ved at skaffe penge til dagen og vejen. Margaret kommer imidlertid på en lusket plan, hvor de skal bortføre en lokal rigmand. Men bortførelsen går ikke som planlagt, og pludselig står gruppen uden en leder. Joyce Carole Oats (f.1938) er en amerikansk forfatter, digter, dramatiker, litteraturanmelder og redaktør. Joyce Carole Oats har et stort og velrenommeret forfatterskab bag sig med over 100 titler i bagagen. Joyce Carole Oats er især kendt for sin skildring af det amerikanske samfund og den vold, der eksisterer mellem de forskellige sociale og etniske grupper og mellem kønnene. Hun er siden sin debut i 1963 blevet hædret med flere priser og norminereringer. Blandt andet har hun vundet The National Book Award og været normineret til en Pulitzer Prize hele fem gange.

Foxfire: en pigebandes bekendelser

Blondine er en storslået, litterær, men samtidig bredt fortalt biografisk roman om Marilyn Monroe (1926-62). Et bragende velskrevet og elementært spændende portræt af en kvinde med en usædvanlig skæbne. Men samtidig en kvinde, der var spejl for alle kvinder i vor tid. Joyce Carol Oates genskaber Norma Jeane som et menneske på godt og ondt, en kompliceret personlighed med en kolossal længsel efter kærligehd, som tabte sig selv i sit alias Marilyn Monroe. Norma Jeane vokser op på børnehjem og i plejefamilier - med en mor, der er indlagt på sindssygehospital og uden at kende sin far. Mens hun endnu er teenager, bliver hun model og starlet i Hollywood. Marilyn bliver hurtigt hele verdens sexbombe i en lang række filmroller som naiv, troskyldig og yppig blondine. Men bag glamouren og ægteskaberne med baseball-legenden Joe DiMaggio og dramatikeren Arthur Miller findes stadig det forladte barn Norma Jeane. Den Norma Jeane, der som "Marilyn" opløst af alkohol og stoffer synger fødselsdagssang for sin elsker, USA's præsident John F. Kennedy, foran tusindvis af mennesker. Kort efter bliver hun fyret fra filmstudiet og derefter fundet død i sit hjem.

Blondine

Natten. Søvnen. Døden. Stjernerne. er en gribende skildring af det moderne Amerika set gennem en familietragedies prisme. 	 	 		Whitey McClaren er tidligere borgmester og en respekteret mand i det samfund, hvor han bor. Da han en dag standser bilen for at stoppe to politimænd, der brutalt mishandler en mand, ender han med selv at blive angrebet. Den korte tid, han efterfølgende har tilbage af sit liv, tilbringer han på hospitalet, omgivet af sin kone Jessalyn og deres fem voksne børn. 	 		I Natten. Søvnen. Døden. Stjernerne. giver Joyce Carol Oates os historien om, hvordan en familie bliver testet som følge af en tragedie, hvordan båndene mellem familiemedlemmer påvirkes, og hvordan alle reagerer på deres egen måde - mere eller mindre uventet – men den sørgende enke måske på den mest forbavsende måde af alle. 	 		 	 	 		Joyce Carol Oates er siden sin debut i 1963 blevet hædret med et væld af priser og nomineringer. Blandt andet har hun vundet The National Book Award, og hun har været nomineret til Pulitzer-prisen hele fem gange. Senest er hun også blevet tildelt the Jerusalem Prize, som gives til en forfatter, der giver stemme til en vision om menneskelig frihed. Denne pris er tidligere givet til forfattere som Don DeLillo, Susan Sontag og J. M. Coetzee. 	 		 	 		Joyce Carol Oates er Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor på det humanistiske fakultet på Princeton University i USA. 	 		 	 		På HarperCollins er tidligere udkommet romanen Mit liv som rotte i 2019.

Natten. Søvnen. Døden. Stjernerne.

Hvilket valg er mest rigtigt: loyalitet over for familien eller loyalitet over for sandheden? Mit liv som rotte følger Violet Rue Kerrigan, en ung kvinde, der ser tilbage på sit liv i eksil fra sin familie, efter at hun i en alder af tolv har aflagt vidnesbyrd om et racerelateret mord på en sort, amerikansk dreng begået af hendes ældre brødre. Med uhyggelig præcision opruller Mit liv som rotte et liv i eksil – forvist fra forældre, søskende og kirken; et liv der tvinger Violet til at opbygge sin egen identitet, til at bryde ud af den tryghed og fortryllelse som dét at være en del af en familie giver. Kan Violet finde vej ud af sit livslange eksil som ”rotten” og komme helskindet ud på den anden side? Mit liv som rotte er en tankevækkende roman om familie, loyalitet, racisme, identitet, seksualitet og svigt. ”Denne roman vil glæde Oates’ trofaste fans og sikre hende nye.” - Publishers Weekly Joyce Carol Oates er siden sin debut i 1963 blevet hædret med et væld af priser og nomineringer. Blandt andet har hun vundet The National Book Award, og hun har været nomineret til Pulitzer-prisen hele fem gange. Senest er hun også blevet tildelt the Jerusalem Prize, som gives til en forfatter, som giver stemme til en vision om menneskelig frihed. Denne pris er tidligere givet til forfattere som Don DeLillo, Susan Sontag og J. M. Coetzee. Joyce Carol Oates er Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor på det humanistiske fakultet på Princeton University i USA.

Mit liv som rotte

‘America’s preeminent fiction writer’ New Yorker‘A raw, propulsive tale of love and grief’ Mail on SundayA novel of love and loss from the bestselling and prizewinning author of Blonde. Michaela and her husband have moved to the starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape of New Mexico, to take up an academic residency. But when Gerard is struck by a fatal illness, their life begins to resemble a nightmare. At thirty-seven, Michaela must first face the terrifying prospect of widowhood, then the chaos of the days when Gerard is gone. Haunting and utterly heart-wrenching, Breathe explores the intense madness of grief and what happens when a love cannot be surrendered. ‘A fever dream of a novel’ New York Times ‘Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going, as far as I’m concerned’ Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl

Breathe

A haunting new novel from Joyce Carol Oates. Mudgirl is a child abandoned by her mother in the silty flats of the Black Snake River. Cast aside, Mudgirl survives by an accident of fate – or destiny. Only when she is adopted by a Quaker family does she begin to suppress those painful memories. Meredith ‘M.R.’ Neukirchen is the first woman president of a prestigious Ivy League university whose commitment to her career and moral fervor are all-consuming. But with an emergent political crisis and a prolonged secret love affair, M.R. has to confront challenges to her professional leadership which test her in ways she could not have expected. The fierce idealism and intelligence that delivered her from a more conventional life in her hometown now threaten to undo her. When she makes a trip upstate, M.R. Neukirchen is thrust into an unexpected psychic collision with Mudgirl and the life M.R. believes she has left behind. A powerful exploration of the enduring claims of the past, Mudwoman is at once a psychic ghost story and the heartbreaking portrait of an individual who breaks – but finds a way to heal herself.

Mudwoman

An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates “Time travel” — and its hazards—are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and 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 cannot resist falling in love with a fellow exile and questioning the constrains of the Wainscotia world with results that are both devastating and liberating. Arresting and visionary, Hazards of Time Travel is both a novel of harrowing discovery and an exquisitely wrought love story that may be Joyce Carol Oates’s most unexpected novel so far.

Hazards of Time Travel

A young girl's disappearance rocks a community and a family in this stirring examination of grief, faith, justice, and the atrocities of war from Joyce Carol Oates, ""one of the great artistic forces of our time"" (The Nation) 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 forever. Carthage plunges us deep into the psyche of a wounded young corporal haunted by unspeakable acts of wartime aggression, while unraveling the story of a disaffected young girl whose exile from her family may have come long before her disappearance. Dark and riveting, Carthage is a powerful addition to the Joyce Carol Oates canon, one that explores the human capacity for violence, love, and forgiveness, and asks if it's ever truly possible to come home again.

Carthage

An eerie, unforgettable story of power, loss, and family curses in early 20th century Princeton. Princeton, New Jersey at the turn of the 20th century: soon-to-be commander-in-chief Woodrow Wilson is president of Princeton University. On a neighbouring farm, muck-raking novelist Upton Sinclair, enjoying the success of The Jungle, has taken up residence with his family. Grover Cleveland, fresh out of his second term in the White House has retired to town for a quieter life. Meanwhile, the elite families of Princeton have been beset by a powerful curse—their daughters are disappearing. A young bride on the verge of the altar is seduced and abducted by a dangerously compelling man—a shape-shifting, vaguely European prince who might just be the devil. In the Pine Barrens on the edge of town, a mysterious and persuasive evil takes shape. When the bride's brother sets out against all odds to find her, his path will cross those of Princeton's most formidable people, from presidents past to its brightest literary luminaries, from Mark Twain to Jack London, as he navigates both the idyllic town and the Dante-esque landscape of the Barrens. An utterly fresh work from Oates, THE ACCURSED marks new territory for the masterful writer–narrated with her unmistakable psychological insight, it combines beautifully transporting historical detail with chilling fantastical elements to stunning effect.

The Accursed

A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five years Joyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute social consciousness, one of the most insistent and inspired witnesses of a shared American history. Oates is perhaps best known for her prodigious output of novels and short stories, many of which have become contemporary classics. However, Oates has also always been a faithful writer of poetry. American Melancholy showcases some of her finest work of the last few decades. Covering subjects big and small, and written in an immediate and engaging style, this collection touches on both the personal and political. Loss, love, and memory are investigated, along with the upheavals of our modern age, the reality of our current predicaments, and the ravages of poverty, racism, and social unrest. Oates skillfully writes characters ranging from a former doctor at a Chinese People’s Liberation Army hospital to Little Albert, a six-month-old infant who took part in a famous study that revealed evidence of classical conditioning in human beings.

American Melancholy

“A mesmerizing storyteller who seems almost unnaturally able to enter the tormented inner lives of her characters.” —Denver Post Black Dahlia & White Rose is a brilliant collection of short fiction from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. These stores, at once lyrical and unsettling, shine with the author’s trademark fascination with finding the unpredictable amidst the prosaic—from her imaginative recreation of friendship between two tragically doomed young women (Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Short), to the tale of an infidelity as deeply human as it is otherworldly. Black Dahlia & White Rose is a major offering from one of the most important artists in contemporary American literature; a superb collection that showcases Joyce Carol Oates’s ferocious energy and darkly imaginative storytelling power.

Black Dahlia & White Rose

A brilliant and thought-provoking novel about family, loyalty and betrayalOnce I’d been Daddy’s favourite. Before something terrible happened. Violet Rue is the baby of the seven Kerrigan children and adores her big brothers. What’s more, she knows that a family protects its own. To go outside the family – to betray the family – is unforgiveable. So when she overhears a conversation not meant for her ears and discovers that her brothers have committed a heinous crime, she is torn between her loyalty to her family and her sense of justice. The decision she takes will change her life for ever. Exploring racism, misogyny, community, family, loyalty, sexuality and identity, this is a dark story with a tense and propulsive atmosphere – Joyce Carol Oates at her very best.

‘Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going’ Gillian Flynn Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates blends sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power in her latest incendiary novel. Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates returns with an incendiary novel that illuminates the tragic impact of sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power on innocent lives and probes the persistence of stereotypes, the nature of revenge, the complexities of truth, and our insatiable hunger for sensationalism. When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanises her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades. In this magisterial work of fiction, Joyce Carol Oates explores the uneasy fault lines in a racially troubled society. In such a tense, charged atmosphere, Oates reveals that there must always be a sacrifice – of innocence, truth, trust, and, ultimately, of lives. Unfolding in a succession of multiracial voices, in a community transfixed by this alleged crime and the spectacle unfolding around it, this profound novel exposes what – and who – the “sacrifice” actually is, and what consequences these kind of events hold for us all. Working at the height of her powers, Oates offers a sympathetic portrait of the young girl and her mother, and challenges our expectations and beliefs about our society, our biases, and ourselves. As the chorus of its voices – from the police to the media to the victim and her family – reaches a crescendo, “The Sacrifice” offers a shocking new understanding of power and oppression, innocence and guilt, truth and sensationalism, justice and retribution. A chilling exploration of complex social, political, and moral themes – the enduring trauma of the past, modern racial and class tensions, the power of secrets, and the primal decisions we all make to protect those we love – “The Sacrifice” is a major work of fiction from one of our most revered literary masters.

The Sacrifice

An ingenious dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society ‘Unrelentingly disturbing’ Observer ‘Taps deep into contemporary anxieties over the rise of surveillance, totalitarian governments and invasive technology’ Daily Mail ‘Oates is still casting some awfully dark magic’ Washington Post 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.

Unlike anything Joyce Carol Oates has written before, A Widow’s Story is the universally acclaimed author’s poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of Raymond Smith, her husband of forty-six years, and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. A recent recipient of National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, Oates, whose novels (Blonde, The Gravedigger’s Daughter, Little Bird of Heaven, etc.) rank among the very finest in contemporary American fiction, offers an achingly personal story of love and loss. A Widow’s Story is a literary memoir on a par with The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion and Calvin Trillin’s About Alice. 

A Widow's Story

A major historical novel from "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nation)—an eerie, unforgettable story of possession, power, and loss in early-twentieth-century Princeton, a cultural crossroads of the powerful and the damned Princeton, New Jersey, at the turn of the twentieth century: a tranquil place to raise a family, a genteel town for genteel souls. But something dark and dangerous lurks at the edges of the town, corrupting and infecting its residents. Vampires and ghosts haunt the dreams of the innocent. A powerful curse besets the elite families of Princeton; their daughters begin disappearing. A young bride on the verge of the altar is seduced and abducted by a dangerously compelling man–a shape-shifting, vaguely European prince who might just be the devil, and who spreads his curse upon a richly deserving community of white Anglo-Saxon privilege. And in the Pine Barrens that border the town, a lush and terrifying underworld opens up. When the bride's brother sets out against all odds to find her, his path will cross those of Princeton's most formidable people, from Grover Cleveland, fresh out of his second term in the White House and retired to town for a quieter life, to soon-to-be commander in chief Woodrow Wilson, president of the university and a complex individual obsessed to the point of madness with his need to retain power; from the young Socialist idealist Upton Sinclair to his charismatic comrade Jack London, and the most famous writer of the era, Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain–all plagued by "accursed" visions. An utterly fresh work from Oates, The Accursed marks new territory for the masterful writer. Narrated with her unmistakable psychological insight, it combines beautifully transporting historical detail with chilling supernatural elements to stunning effect.

New York Times Bestselling Author Finally returned to print, a haunting gothic tale that illuminates the fortunes and misfortunes of a 19th-century immigrant family of confidence artists—a story of morality, duplicity, and retribution that explores the depths of human manipulation and vulnerability “Oates . . . rarely falters throughout this epic. . . . An American tragedy.”—People “My Heart Laid Bare shows Oates at her most playful, extravagant and inventive.”—The San Francisco Chronicle The patriarch of the Licht family, Abraham has raised a brood of talented con artists, children molded in his image, and experts in The Game, his calling and philosophy of life. Traveling from one small town to the next across the continent, from the Northeast to the frontier West, they skillfully swindle unsuspecting victims, playing on their greed, lust, pride, and small-mindedness. Despite their success, Abraham cannot banish a past that haunts him: the ghost of his ancestor Sarah Licht, a former con woman who met with a gruesome fate. As Abraham moves his family from town to town, involving them in more and more complex and impressive schemes, he finds himself caught between the specter of Sarah and the growing terrors of his present. As his carefully crafted lies and schemes begin to fracture and disintegrate before his eyes, Abraham discovers that the bond of family is as tenuous and treacherous as the tricks he perpetrates upon unsuspecting strangers.

My Heart Laid Bare

In this striking, enormously affecting novel, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families. Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God’s will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town while Augustus Voorhees, the idealistic doctor who is killed, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief. In her moving, insightful portrait, Joyce Carol Oates fully inhabits the perspectives of two interwoven families whose destinies are defined by their warring convictions and squarely-but with great empathy-confronts an intractable, abiding rift in American society. A Book of American Martyrs is a stunning, timely depiction of an issue hotly debated on a national stage but which makes itself felt most lastingly in communities torn apart by violence and hatred.

A Book of American Martyrs

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize 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 gratitude. “Sex with Camel” explores how a sixteen-year-old boy realizes the depth of his love for his grandmother—and how vulnerable those feelings make him. Fearful that that her husband is “disappearing” from their life, a woman becomes obsessed with keeping him in her sight in “The Disappearing.” “A Book of Martyrs” reveals how the end of a pregnancy brings with it the end of a relationship. And in the title story, the elderly Robert Frost is visited by an interviewer, an unsettling young woman, who seems to know a good deal more about his life than she should. A piercing and evocative collection, Lovely, Dark, Deep reveals an artist at the height of her creative power.

Lovely, Dark, Deep

The latest Ecco reissue of Joyce Carol Oates’ early classics: a fiery gothic tale of doomed fates and demons of biblical proportions in rural New York state. Nathan Vickery came into the world amid unfortunate circumstances. His mother, Elsa Vickery, daughter of an agnostic small town doctor and his pious wife, was brutally assaulted at the age of seventeen. The son she gave birth to in the wake of this event is brought up by his grandmother as a devoted Christian. At the age of seven, Nathan begins to see visions of Christ and embarks on a path as a prodigy boy-preacher, hurtling toward enlightenment while increasingly falling under the dangerous spell of power. Nathan becomes the leader of an evangelical church, accumulating vast riches from donation. Each year, his visions grow more elaborate and grandiose. When he suddenly feels that God has forsaken him, is it punishment for indulging in the sins of lust, pride, and greed that he has long preached against? Joyce Carol Oates’s talent for searing psychological inquiry and her eye for detail as well as her knack for indelible character portrayals and unflinching social commentary are fully on display in Son of the Morning. Fans of her work will be thrilled to see this early novel, the influences of which can be observed in later tour-de-force works like A Book of American Martyrs and The Sacrifice.

Son of the Morning

The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society Night Sleep Death The Stars is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, Joyce Carol Oates’s latest novel is a vivid exploration of race, psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing, as well as an intimate family novel in the tradition of the author’s bestselling We Were the Mulvaneys.

Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.

A deeply intimate psychological portrait of a young woman's tragic childhood, her reinvention as a successful young artist in the literary circles of 1950s New York City, and her struggle to understand and overcome the trauma of her past. Growing up in the confines of Innisfail, a bleak town in upstate New York, bright and curious Marya endures abandonment, betrayal, and loneliness. A college scholarship offers escape, taking her to New York City, where she makes a name for herself in academic and literary circles. But success cannot overcome the damage of her childhood, pain that haunts Marya’s personal, professional, and romantic relationships, and has left her unmoored. Psychologically nuanced, rich in insight and emotional complexity, told with the unsettling power of Joyce Carol Oates’s gothic novels, Marya: A Life is an intense look into the psyche of a young woman and an illuminating exploration of how the past reverberates throughout our lives.

Marya: A Life

A new collection of critical and personal essays on the writing life, from National Book Award—winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates. “Why do we write?” With this question, Joyce Carol Oates, in this new collection of seminal essays and criticism, begins an imaginative exploration of the writing life and all its attendant anxieties, joys, and futilities. Leading her quest is a desire to understand the source of the writer’s inspiration—do subjects haunt those that might bring them back to life until the writer submits? Or does something “happen” to us, a sudden ignition of a burning flame? Can the appearance of a muse-like Other bring about a writer’s best work? In Soul at the White Heat, Oates deploys her keenest critical faculties, conjuring contemporary and past voices whose work she deftly and creatively dissects for clues to these elusive questions. Virginia Woolf, John Updike, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, J. M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Joan Didion, Zadie Smith, and many others appear as predecessors and peers—material through which Oates sifts in acting as literary detective, philosopher, and student. The book is at its most thrilling when watching the writer herself at work, and Oates provides rare insight into her own process, in candid, self-aware dispatches from the author’s writing room. Longtime admirers of Joyce Carol Oates’s novels as well as her nonfiction will discover much to be inspired by and obsess upon in this inventive collection from an American master. As the New York Times has said of her essays, “Oates’s writing has always seemed effortless: urgent, unafraid, torrential. She writes like a woman who walks into rough country and doesn’t look back.”

Soul at the White Heat

Unavailable for 40 years, this seminal novel of madness and murder is acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates' powerful trip into the mind of a maniac. Abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, shuttled from one abusive foster home and detention center to another, Bobbie Gotteson grew up angry, hurting, damaged. His hunger to succeed as a musician brought him across the country to Hollywood, but along with it came his seething rage, his paranoid delusions, and his capacity for acts of shocking violence. Unavailable for 40 years, The Triumph of the Spider Monkey is an eloquent, terrifying, heartbreaking exploration of madness by one of the most acclaimed authors of the past century. This definitive edition for the first time pairs the original novel with a never-before-collected companion novella by Joyce Carol Oates, unseen since its sole publication in a literary journal nearly half a century ago, which examines the impact of Gotteson's killing spree on a woman who survived it, as seen through the eyes of the troubled young man hired by a private detective to surveil her…

The Triumph of the Spider Monkey

The first novel from New York Times-bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a thrilling, dark tale of family, revenge, and two souls intertwined by love and violence—now back in print for fans of America’s most prolific storyteller. Written when Joyce Carol Oates was in her early twenties, and first published in 1964, With Shuddering Fall is her powerful debut novel, the first of five new Oates reprints from Ecco. Following the turbulent story of two lovers who discover themselves mortal enemies, the author explores the struggle for dominance in erotic relationships that has become a predominant theme in her work, as well as the perils of patriarchal inheritance, and the ripple-effects of emotional loss in adolescence. The result is an unsentimental yet sympathetic rendering of a disastrous love affair in which hatred is nearly as powerful as love, and a yearning for destruction is an abiding and insatiable passion. Discover what prompted the New York Times to compare this young writer’s debut to Shirley Jackson’s famous short story, “The Lottery.” Readers looking for a place to start in Joyce Carol Oates’s vast catalogue will be intrigued by the sheer narrative force of the young author, and her willingness to anatomize the darkest recesses of humanity in a search for redemption and resolution.

With Shuddering Fall

'Will burrow under your skin and live forever in your darkest dreams' Bust Joyce Carol Oates assembles a spectacular cast to explore, subvert and reinvent one of horror's most visceral of subgenres. Focusing on distortions of the human body, the fifteen short stories of A Darker Shade will delight, disgust and shock you. From the metaphysical horror of a snail trapped in body of a young office worker, to a women cursed to dance endlessly, her body ravaged and torn, these are stories that confront the inextricable link between physical and mental terror. Featuring brand-new stories by: Margaret Atwood, Raven Leilani, Lisa Tuttle, Tananarive Due, Joyce Carol Oates, Megan Abbott, Aimee Bender, Cassandra Khaw, Lisa Lim, Elizabeth Hand, Valerie Martin, Sheila Kohler, Joanna Margaret and Aimee LaBrie, and Yumi Dineen Shiroma.

A Darker Shade

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 indelible influence on the woman and the writer she would become. In this exceptionally candid, moving, and richly reflective account, Oates explores the world through the eyes of her younger self, an imaginative girl eager to tell stories about the world and the people she meets. While reading Alice in Wonderland changed a young Joyce forever and inspired her to view life as a series of endless adventures, growing up on a farm taught her harsh lessons about sacrifice, hard work, and loss. With searing detail and an acutely perceptive eye, Oates renders her memories and emotions with exquisite precision, transporting us to a forgotten place and time—the lost landscape of her youth, reminding us of the forgotten landscapes of our own earliest lives.

The Lost Landscape

In this taut and fascinating novel, the bestselling, New York Times bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of The Sacrifice, The Accursed, and Lovely, Dark, Deep examines the mysteries of memory, personality, and identity and pierces the enigmatic force that drives human lives—love. In 1965, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe meets the attractive, charismatic Elihu Hoopes—the “man without a shadow”—whose devastated memory, unable to store new experiences or to retrieve the old, will make him the most famous and most studied amnesiac in history. Over the course of the next thirty years, Margot herself becomes famous for her experiments with E. H.—and inadvertently falls in love with him, despite the ethical ambiguity of their affair, and though he remains forever elusive and mysterious to her, haunted by mysteries of the past. The Man Without a Shadow tracks the intimate, illicit relationship between Margot and Eli, as scientist and subject embark upon an exploration of the labyrinthine mysteries of the human brain. Where does “memory” reside? Where is “love”? Is it possible to love an individual who cannot love you, who cannot “remember” you from one meeting to the next? Made vivid by her exceptional eye for detail and her keen insight into the human psyche, The Man Without A Shadow is a unique story of forbidden love, a kind of secret, evolving marriage, depicted in Joyce Carol Oates’s tight, impassioned prose. It is an uncanny, ambitious, and structurally complex novel that penetrates the mind and illuminates the heart.

A spellbinding novel of literary and psychological suspenseabout 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' (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 Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox’s car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an unidentified body strewn about the nearby woods, the entire community, including Detective Horace Zwender and his deputy, begins to ask disturbing questions about Francis Fox and who he might really be. A hypnotic, galloping tale of crime and complicity, revenge and restitution, victim vs. predator, Joyce Carol Oates’s Fox illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche while asking profound moral questions about justice and the response evil demands. A character as magnetically diabolical as Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley and Vladimir Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert, Francis Fox enchants and manipulates nearly everyone around him, until at last he meets someone he can’t outfox. Written in Oates’s trademark intimate, sweeping style, and interweaving multiple points of view, Fox is a triumph of craftsmanship and artistry, a novel as profound as it is propulsive, as moving as it is full of mystery. ‘A tautly wound procedural, elegantly written … Oates once again masterfully limns the worse angels of our nature’KIRKUS REVIEWS ‘Menacing, mesmerizing, and thoroughly provocative’ BOOKLIST

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 course of her life forever. Even the experience of reading is investigated as one that can create a profound transformation: “You could enter another time, the time of the book.” The (Other) You is an arresting and incisive vision into these alternative realities, a collection that ponders the constraints we all face given the circumstances of our birth and our temperaments, and that examines the competing pressures and expectations on women in particular. Finely attuned to the nuances of our social and psychic selves, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates here why she remains one of our most celebrated and relevant literary figures.

The (Other) You

The Stoker Award-winning chilling anthology of 18 short stories in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson, collecting today's best horror writers. Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Hand and more. A collection of new and exclusive short stories inspired by, and in tribute to, Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson is a seminal writer of horror and mystery fiction, whose legacy resonates globally today. Chilling, human, poignant and strange, her stories have inspired a generation of writers and readers. This anthology, edited by legendary horror editor Ellen Datlow, will bring together today's leading horror writers to offer their own personal tribute to the work of Shirley Jackson. Featuring: Joyce Carol Oates Josh Malerman Carmen Maria Machado Paul Tremblay Richard Kadrey Stephen Graham Jones Elizabeth Hand Kelly Link Cassandra Khaw Karen Heuler Benjamin Percy John Langan Laird Barron Jeffrey Ford M. Rickert Seanan McGuire Gemma Files Genevieve Valentine.

When Things Get Dark

A NOVEL OF LOVE AND LOSS FROM BESTSELLING AND PRIZEWINNING AUTHOR JOYCE CAROL OATES Amid a starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape in New Mexico, a married couple from Cambridge, MA takes residency at a distinguished academic institute. When the husband is stricken with a mysterious illness, misdiagnosed at first, their lives are uprooted and husband and wife each embarks upon a nightmare journey. At thirty-seven, Michaela faces the terrifying prospect of widowhood - and the loss of Gerard, whose identity has greatly shaped her own. In vividly depicted scenes of escalating suspense, Michaela cares desperately for Gerard in his final days as she comes to realize that her love for her husband, however fierce and selfless, is not enough to save him and that his death is beyond her comprehension. A love that refuses to be surrendered at death—is this the blessing of a unique married love, or a curse that must be exorcized? Part intimately detailed love story, part horror story rooted in real life, BREATHE is an exploration of hauntedness rooted in the domesticity of marital love, as well as our determination both to be faithful to the beloved and to survive the trauma of loss.

Finally returned to print in a beautiful new trade paperback edition, comes Joyce Carol Oates’ lost classic: a satirical, often surreal, and beautifully plotted Gothic Romance that follows the exploits of the audacious Zinn sisters, whose 19th century pursuit of adventurous lives turns a lens on contemporary American culture. Set in a nineteenth century similar to our own, A Bloodsmoor Romance follows the beautiful Zinn sisters, five young women who refuse—for the most part—”the obligations of Christian marriage.” Full of Oates’s mordant wit and breathlessly told in the Victorian style by an unnamed narrator shocked by the Zinn sisters’ sexuality, impulsivity, and rude rejection of the mores of their time, A Bloodsmoor Romance is a delicious filigree of literary conventions, “a novel of manners” in the tradition of Austen, Dickens, and Alcott which Oates turns on its head. Oates’s dark romp interweaves murder and mayhem, ghosts, and abductions, substance abuse and gender identity, women’s suffrage, the American spiritualist movement, and sexual aberration, as the Zinn sisters come into contact with some of the 19th century’s greatest characters, from Mark Twain to Oscar Wilde. A biting assessment of the American landscape and a virtuosic transformation of a literary genre, A Bloodsmoor Romance is a compelling, hilarious, and magical anti-romance—Little Women by way of Stephen King.

A Bloodsmoor Romance

The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society by one of our most enduringly popular and important writers. Night Sleep Death The Stars is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, Joyce Carol Oates’s latest novel is a vivid exploration of race, psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing, as well as an intimate family novel in the tradition of the author’s bestselling We Were the Mulvaneys.

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