'Chilling' FINANCIAL TIMES ‘Impressive and unsettling'NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 'Eerie, shocking, provoking' GILLIAN FLYNN 'Rich in suspense, diabolical secrets and psychological insight’ECONOMIST 'Engrossing even as it horrifies' BIG ISSUE A spellbinding 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. 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. 'Hauntingly explores the way that beguiling figures can inspire, create and shape art’ LOS ANGELES TIMES 'Mesmerizing' MICHAEL CONNELLY 'Oates is a genius' REBECCA MAKKAI 'Oates views the US through a gothic prism, forming images as striking as they are disturbing'FINANCIAL TIMES 'Absolutely chilling … this is Oates at her most disturbing and masterful’SEATTLE TIMES 'Inescapably abhorrent yet enthralling … Oates understands, as always, how to keep us on the hook’LOS ANGELES TIMES 'Engrossing even as it horrifies and reminds us that we cannot nor should not look away’BIG ISSUE ‘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

‘Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going’ GILLIAN FLYNN 'Gripping … Bravura storytelling' VOGUE 'A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare' FINANCIAL TIMES From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a nineteenth-century women's asylum, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world. Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Dr Silas Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics. There, his work focuses on women who have been neglected by the state – women he subjects to grotesque modes of experimentation. Based on authentic historical documents, Butcher is a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche. 'A ghastly and harrowing page-turner' STEPHEN KING, via X 'A triumph of style and brio’FINANCIAL TIMES 'Terrifying' FLAUNT 'Vividly and compellingly-drawn' iNEWS

Butcher

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.

My Life as a Rat

‘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

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

Joyce Carol Oates uses her award-winning talents to spin a masterful tale of Gothic horror for the second part of her mesmerizing trilogy. In The Devil's Half Acre, an eerie, supernatural setting and a host of eccentric characters combine to fill this spellbinding novel with tantalizing suspense. After more than a decade, the handsome amateur detective Xavier Kilgarvan has returned to Winterthurn just in time to see the fifth young woman's body carried from Devil's Half Acre. A brutal fiend has left her mutilated body in this desolate plot of land filled with hulking boulders, quicksand, and twisted trees. Can detective Kilgarvan discover the forces motivating the mysterious "Gentleman Suitor" who has lured five innocent women to their deaths? To do so, he must confront demons from the past and the superstitions that surround the Devil's Half Acre.

Mysteries of Winterthurn

The Devil's Half Acre

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

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

'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

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 young girl’s disappearance rocks a community and a family, in this stirring examination of grief, faith, justice and the atrocities of war, the latest from literary legend Joyce Carol Oates. 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 instead 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 it it’s ever truly possible to come home again.

Carthage

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

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 page-turner … nothing less than magical’ Observer‘An extraordinary slice of suburban noir’ Daily MailFrom one of America’s most renowned storytellers comes a novel about love and deceit, and lust and redemption, against a background of child abductions in the affluent suburbs of Detroit. In the waning days of the turbulent 1970s, in the wake of unsolved killings that have shocked Detroit, the lives of several residents are drawn together, with tragic consequences. There is Hannah, wife of a prominent local businessman, who has begun an affair with a darkly charismatic stranger whose identity remains elusive; Mikey, a canny street hustler who finds himself on an unexpected mission to rectify injustice; and the serial killer known as Babysitter, an enigmatic and terrifying figure at the periphery of elite Detroit. As Babysitter continues his rampage of killings, these individuals intersect with one another in startling and unexpected ways. Suspenseful, brilliantly orchestrated and engrossing, Babysitter is a starkly narrated exploration of the riskiness of pursuing alternate lives, calling into question how far we are willing to go to protect those whom we cherish most. In its scathing indictment of corrupt politics, unexamined racism, and the enabling of sexual predation in America, Babysitter is a thrilling work of contemporary fiction. ‘Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going, as far as I’m concerned’ Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl ‘Joyce Carol Oates is a writer who always takes your breath away' Mail on Sunday 'A writer of extraordinary strengths' Guardian

Babysitter

Matt Donaghy has always been a Big Mouth. But it's never gotten him in trouble -- until the day Matt is accused of threatening to blow up Rocky River High School. Ursula Riggs has always been an Ugly Girl. A loner with fierce, staring eyes, Ursula has no time for petty high school stuff like friends and dating -- or at least that's what she tells herself Ursula is content with minding her own business. And she doesn't even really know Matt Donaghy. But Ursula is the only person who knows what Matt really said that day ... and she is the only one who can help him. In her first novel for young adults, acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates has created a provocative and unflinching story of friendship and family, and of loyalty and betrayal. Performed by Hilary Swank and Chad Lowe

Big Mouth & Ugly Girl

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 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

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

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

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

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.

Hazards of Time Travel

A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. A newlywed, he has left behind his wife, Ariah Erskine, in the honeymoon suite the morning after their wedding. ""The Widow Bride of The Falls,"" as Ariah comes to be known, begins a relentless, seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to be found. At her side throughout, confirmed bachelor and pillar of the community Dirk Burnaby is unexpectedly transfixed by the strange, otherworldly gaze of this plain, strange woman, falling in love with her though they barely exchange a word. What follows is their passionate love affair, marriage, and children -- a seemingly perfect existence. But the tragedy by which their life together began shadows them, damaging their idyll with distrust, greed, and even murder. What unfurls is a drama of parents and their children; of secrets and sins; of lawsuits, murder and eventually redemption. Set against the mythic historic backdrop of Niagara Falls, Joyce Carol Oates explores the American family in crisis, but also America itself in the mid-twentieth century. The Falls is a love story gone wrong and righted and it alone places Joyce Carol Oates definitively in the company of the great American novelists. Performed by Anna Fields

The Falls

‘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

'Rape: A Love Story gives us Oates at her darkly enthralling best.' -- Andrew Ervin, New York Times Teena Maguire should not have tried to shortcut her way home that Fourth of July. Not after midnight, not through Rocky Point Park. Not the way she was dressed in a tank top, denim cutoffs, and high-heeled sandals. Not with her twelve-year-old daughter Bethie. Not with packs of local guys running loose on hormones, rage and alcohol. A victim of gang rape, left for dead in the park boathouse, the once vivacious Teena can now only regret that she has survived. At a relentlessly compelling pace punctuated by lonely cries in the night and the whisper of terror in the afternoon, Joyce Carol Oates unfolds the story of Teena and Bethie, their assailants, and their unexpected, silent champion, a man who knows the meaning of justice. And love.

Rape: A Love Story

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.

Two families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences.Gus Voorhees is a pioneer in the advancement of women’s reproductive rights and a controversial abortion provider in the American Midwest. One morning as he arrives at his clinic, he is ambushed by a hardline Christian, Luther Dunphy, and shot dead. The killing leaves in its wake two fatherless families: the Voorheeses, who are affluent, highly educated, secular and pro-choice, and the Dunphys, their opposite on all counts. When the daughters of the two families, Naomi Voorhees and Dawn Dunphy, glimpse each other at the trial of Luther Dunphy, their initial response is mutual hatred. But their lives are tangled together forever by what has happened, and throughout the years to come and the events that follow, neither can quite forget the other. A heart-rending reckoning with some of the most incendiary issues that divide us in our troubled times – religious extremism; abortion; gun violence; capital punishment – this is a novel Joyce Carol Oates was born to write. To read it is to encounter the full spectrum of humanity – its ugliness, misery, beauty and hope.

A Book of American Martyrs

Joyce Carol Oates has been hailed as America's foremost woman of letters. She is at her best in American Appetites, weaving a masterful tale of personal entanglements, fatal decisions, and courtroom drama. Ian and Glynnis McCullough, intelligent, professional and successful, are the envy of their affluent friends. But suddenly, an unexpected plea for help and a cancelled check send their tranquility spinning out of control.

American Appetites

‘Oates’s imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll’s’ ROSE TREMAIN 'A master storyteller' THE TIMES 'Electric' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers. A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community; a woman stalked by a would-be killer may be confiding in the wrong former lover; a young woman is morbidly obsessed by her unfamiliar new role as “mother.” In the collection’s longest story, a much-praised cutting-edge writer cruelly experiments with “drafts” of his own suicide. In these powerfully wrought stories that hold a mirror up to our time, Joyce Carol Oates has created a world of erotic obsession, thwarted idealism, and ever-shifting identities. Provocative and stunning, Zero-Sum reinforces Oates’s standing as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life. ‘Alluringly dark and spiky’ NEW STATESMAN ‘Zero-Sum is brilliant – bloodied, breathless, weird’ A. K. BLAKEMORE ‘Dark, unsettling stories … There’s a disquieting violence simmering … a shrill alarm of disquiet’ DAILY MAIL ‘Oates is an inspired writer, and a formidable psychologist’ INDEPENDENT

Zero-Sum

Teena Maguire borde aldrig tagit den där genvägen hem efter 4 juli-festen. Inte efter midnatt. Inte genom parken. Inte så som hon var klädd: linne, avklippta jeans, högklackade sandaler – som om hon bad om det. Inte tillsammans med sin tolvåriga dotter Bethie. Inte medan pojkgängen i grannskapet var ute och härjade. Hon blir offer för en brutal gruppvåldtäkt, och nu kan hon bara beklaga att hon överlevde. Bethie, som blir vittne till övergreppet, lever i ständig skräck. Hon har identifierat pojkarna, de har ställts inför rätta, men med hjälp av en driven advokat har de släppts mot borgen. Det finns dock en man som brinner för rättvisa, en man som vet vad kärlek är. Joyce Carol Oates har skrivit en grym och tänkvärd roman, en kort, tät, skakande berättelse som samtidigt är ohyggligt spännande. Det är också en roman om kärlek, en kärlek som är djupare, och kanske svårare att förstå, än den erotiska attraktionen, för den handlar om det som får människor att bry sig om varandra, som väcker vår önskan att beskydda och försvara de kränkta och de oskyldiga.

Våld : en historia om kärlek

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

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

M.R. Neukirchen är professor i filosofi och rektor för ett prestigefyllt universitet på den amerikanska östkusten. Hon är rakryggad, diplomatisk och alltid lika vänlig – värdefulla egenskaper för den som hanterar känsliga relationer till donatorer, bångstyriga studenter och äregiriga kolleger och som är ansikte utåt för ett lärosäte med fint men dessvärre inte fläckfritt rykte. På väg till en stor kongress gör M.R. en spontan avstickare till sin barndoms trakter vid Great Snake River och får där oväntat kontakt med Dyflickan, som fyrtio år tidigare misshandlades svårt av sin mor och lämnades att dö i flodkantens dy. Innan slumpen såg till att hon blev räddad, bortadopterad och omdöpt till Meredith Ruth Neukirchen. Joyce Carol Oates har skrivit en psykologisk spänningsroman som för tankarna till klassiker som Daphne DuMauriers Rebecca eller till Henry James När skruven dras åt.

Dykvinnan

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

Violet Rue är yngst i familjen Kerrigan och hon ser upp till sina äldre bröder. I hennes familj håller man varandra om ryggen. Så när Violet råkar höra sina bröder prata om att de begått ett fruktansvärt brott, slits hon mellan att vara lojal med sin familj eller att berätta för en utomstående. Beslutet hon fattar kommer att tvinga henne att upptäcka sin egen identitet, bryta familjens förtrollning och efter lång tid i exil, återvända till ett förändrat liv. *** Joyce Carol Oates, född 1938 i staten New York, är en av USA:s mest betydande författare. Oates har utmärkt sig som en av de största inom den samtida amerikanska litteraturen och har tilldelats flera priser; bland annat National Humanities Medal, National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award och PEN/Malamud Award. Oates har nominerats till Pulitzerpriset och skrivit några av vår tids mest angelägna verk inklusive de bästsäljande romanerna Blonde, som nominerades till National Book Award, och New York Times-bästsäljaren Fallen som tilldelades Prix Femina 2005. Oates vann också 2019 års Jerusalempris, ett internationellt litteraturpris som tilldelas författare vars verk behandlar mänsklig frihet i samhället. Joyce Carol Oates är verksam vid Princeton University och har varit medlem av American Academy of Arts and Letters sedan 1978.

Mitt liv som råtta

“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

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

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

"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

"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

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

Joyce Carol Oates’ stunning Gothic trilogy comes to a close with a heart-stopping tale of murder, suspense, and romance. As detective Xavier Kilgarvan sorts through clues and rumors, facts and fantasy, he is united with his beloved Perdita in a perilous challenge—the case of The Bloodstained Bridal Gown. Twelve years after solving the mystery of The Devil’s Half Acre, Xavier has received an urgent plea for help. A young minister and a woman from his parish have been murdered. Their torn bodies are found in an oddly suggestive position: leaning tenderly upon each other on a sofa in the rectory. Yet something even stranger is discovered upstairs: bound and gagged, the minister’s wife lies half-senseless in her bed, clad in a gore-splattered wedding dress. Through the splendid Mysteries of Winterthurn, Xavier Kilgarvan joins the ranks of the great detectives of the last century. Filled with tantalizing clues and evocative language, his final case will lure you into a deliciously eerie world.

The Bloodstained Bridal Gown

Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors—including Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Due, and Megan Abbott—to explore, subvert, and reinvent one of the most vital subgenres of horror. Featuring brand-new stories by: Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Due, Joyce Carol Oates, Megan Abbott, Aimee Bender, Cassandra Khaw, Lisa Lim, Elizabeth Hand, Valerie Martin, Raven Leilani, Sheila Kohler, Joanna Margaret, Lisa Tuttle, Aimee LaBrie, and Yumi Dineen Shiroma. While the common belief is that “body horror” as a subgenre of horror fiction dates back to the 1970s, Joyce Carol Oates suggests that Medusa, the snakehaired gorgon in Greek mythology, is the “quintessential emblem of female body horror.” In A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers, Oates has assembled a spectacular cast to explore this subgenre focusing on distortions to the human body in the most fascinating of ways.

A Darker Shade of Noir

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

Hänen ongelmansa ei ollut siinä että hän olisi ollut tyhmä blondi – vaan siinä ettei hän ollut blondi eikä tyhmä. Norma Jeane Baker on kaltoinkohdeltu, isätön tyttö; orpo, jonka äiti julistetaan hulluksi. Hänestä tulee näyttelijä, nainen nimeltä Marilyn Monroe; julkkis, komedienne, muusa, vaimo, rakastajatar ja jumaloitu seksisymboli. Hän ajautuu syvälle Hollywoodin koneistoon ja kasvaa kiinni rooliinsa Marilynina. Mutta kuka on Norma Jeane, nainen roolin takana? Blondi on hengästyttävä, koskettava ja vaikuttava fiktiivinen tarina hauraasta, lahjakkaasta nuoresta naisesta, joka janoaa rakkautta ja sitä, että hänet nähtäisiin omana itsenään. Se on intiimi ja kaunistelematon kuvaus naiseudesta, identiteetistä ja julkisuutta palvovan kulttuurin karusta kääntöpuolesta. --- Joyce Carol Oates (s. 1938 New Yorkissa) on Yhdysvaltain tunnetuimpia ja tuotteliaimpia kirjailijoita. Hänen laaja tuotantonsa sisältää romaaneja, novellikokoelmia, runoteoksia, lasten- ja nuortenkirjoja, näytelmiä ja esseitä. Hän toimii kirjallisuuden professorina Princetonin yliopistossa. Oates on saanut tuotannostaa useita palkintoja ja ollut useasti ehdolla Pulitzer-palkinnon saajaksi. Fiktiivisen Marilyn Monroen elämää kuvaava menestyskirja Blondi on Oatesin uran ehdoton huippu. Kirja julkaistiin ensimmäisen kerran vuonna 2000 ja suomeksi vuonna 2001.

Blondi

Isä väitti rakastavansa meitä kaikkia yhtä paljon. Itse asiassa hän olisi suuttunut, jos joku olisi väittänyt jotain muuta. Niinhän vanhemmat usein sanovat. Kunnes tulee päivä ja hetki, jolloin niin ei enää sanota. Violet Kerrigan on suuren perheen rakastettu kuopus. Kaikki muuttuu yhdessä hetkessä, kun Violetin isoveljet pahoinpitelevät ja tappavat tummaihoisen pojan ja Violet kantelee veljistään, totuus vyöryy hänen suustaan ennen kuin hän ehtii edes harkita sanojaan. Perheen silmissä Violet muuttuu petturiksi ja hänet karkotetaan kotoa. Kaikki perheenjäsenet kääntävät hänelle selkänsä, kukaan ei halua enää koskaan kuulla rotta-siskosta. Elämäni rottana on pysäyttävä ja kirpeä kertomus identiteetin etsimisestä, rakkaudenkaipuusta, salaisuuksien painosta ja siitä, miltä tuntuu elää karkotettuna perheestään.

Elämäni rottana

Mestarillisen kertojan intiimi ja viiltävän tarkka kuvaus perhesuhteista sekä menetyksestä. Whitey McClaren on entinen pormestari, isä ja yhteisössään erittäin arvostettu. Kun hän kuolee äkillisesti, koko perhe romahtaa. Jokainen perheenjäsen reagoi omalla tavallaan, mutta kaikki enemmän tai vähemmän odottamattomin tavoin. Aikuiset lapset räpiköivät eteenpäin selviytyäkseen menetyksestä ja sen mukanaan tuomasta identiteettikriisistä. Rajuimmin tuntuu itseään rakentavan uudelleen hauras leski, perheen äiti, joka on elänyt miehelleen ja lapsilleen niin kauan, ettei enää muista kuka hän itse asiassa on. Yö. Uni. Kuolema. Ja tähdet. on vahva ja läpitunkeva kuvaus perhesuhteista, psykologisista traumoista sekä rotu- ja luokkakysymyksistä nykypäivän Yhdysvalloissa. Se on myös intiimi kertomus surusta, toipumisesta ja uusista aluista. *** Joyce Carol Oates (s. 1938 New Yorkissa) on yhdysvaltalainen kirjailija ja Princetonin yliopiston professori. Hän on saanut tuotannostaan useita palkintoja, muun muassa National Book Awardin ja Prix Feminan sekä ollut useasti ehdolla Pulitzer palkinnon saajaksi. Tuottelias Oates on julkaissut niin romaaneja, näytelmiä, runoja kuin tietokirjojakin, joista osan kirjailijanimellä Rosamond Smith. Suomeksi on tätä ennen julkaistu 12 teosta, mm. Blondi (2001) ja Elämäni rottana (2020).

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