Joyce Carol Oates Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Michaela und ihr Mann sind in die wunderschöne, aber unheimliche Landschaft New Mexicos gezogen, um dort an einem renommierten akademischen Institut zu arbeiten. Doch dann erkrankt Gerard schwer, und schon bald gleicht ihr Leben einem Albtraum. Mit 37 Jahren steht Michaela vor der erschreckenden Aussicht, Witwe zu werden – und vor dem Verlust von Gerard, dessen Identität ihre eigene stark geprägt hat. »Wache halten« ist eine Erkundung des rohen Wahnsinns von Trauer und eine wahrhaftige Liebesgeschichte, die sich mit den großen Fragen unserer Existenz auseinandersetzt.

Düster wie Bram Stoker, feministisch wie Margaret Atwood: Der neue Roman von einer der bedeutendsten amerikanischen Autorinnen der Gegenwart Pennsylvania, Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts. Dr. Silas Weir ist ein junger Arzt aus gutem Hause, doch ohne Charisma und Talent. Beim Anblick von Blut wird er ohnmächtig, Frauenkörper stoßen ihn ab. Um seinen strengen Vater zu beeindrucken, versucht er, auf unorthodoxe Weise als Chirurg voranzukommen, was ihn gesellschaftlich isoliert. Dann wird er durch eine Aneinanderreihung von Zufällen Direktor der Staatlichen Heilanstalt für weibliche Geisteskranke in New Jersey. Hier beginnt Weir, vorgeblich im Dienste des medizinischen Fortschritts, Experimente an den meist schwarzen und irischen Insassinnen durchzuführen. Bald gilt er als führender, wenn auch berüchtigter Experte für Gynäkologie und Psychiatrie. Bis eine junge Dienstmagd zu seiner Obsession, seinem wichtigsten Versuchsobjekt und schließlich zu seinem Verhängnis wird. »Oates' Anklage gegen die physische und psychische Behandlung von Frauen durch das medizinische Establishment ist eine fesselnde, anspruchsvolle Lektüre.« Publishers Weekly

Когда женщина таинственным образом исчезает из своего маленького городка, ее сестра должна собрать улики, чтобы раскрыть правду о загадке. Красивый скульптор Маргерит исчезла из своего маленького городка в штате Нью-Йорк. Но было ли это преступление? Или она просто сбежала развлечься? Или она наконец приняла решение оставить свою клаустрофобную жизнь с ограниченными возможностями? Младшая сестра Джиджи задается вопросом, является ли легкое шелковое платье Dior, так небрежно брошенное на пол, уликой в исчезновении Маргерит. Полиция ломает голову над следами, оставленными ее ботинками Ferragamo, которые обрываются недалеко от ее дома. Постепенно раскрываются тайны обеих женщин, так как Джиджи, не такая красивая, как ее сестра, открывает свои истинные чувства к идеальной, любимой Маргерит. Судьба пропавшей красавицы медленно и тонко становится ясной в этой напряженной истории о сложных отношениях двух сестер.

From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’s asylum in the nineteenth century, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world.

When a woman mysteriously vanishes from her small town home, her sister must tally up the clues to uncover the truth behind the mystery.Beautiful sculptor Marguerite has disappeared from her small town in upstate New York. But was foul play involved? Did she merely get away for some fun? Or did she finally make the decision to leave behind her claustrophobic life of limited opportunities?Younger sister Gigi wonders if the flimsy silk Dior dress, so casually abandoned on the floor, is a clue to Marguerite's vanishing. The police puzzle over the footprints made by her Ferragamo boots, which end abruptly close to her home.Bit by bit, revelations about both women are uncovered, as Gigi, not so pretty as her sister, reveals her true feelings about the perfect, much-loved Marguerite. The fate of the missing beauty slowly and subtly comes to light In this suspenseful story about the complex relationship between two sisters.48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister is an exquisitely suspenseful tale from Joyce Carol Oates, literary icon and author of Blonde and We Were the Mulvaneys.'This elegant, captivating tale is un-put-downable.' Publishers Weekly 'Perfect for all the Daisy Jones & the Six fans out there.' Katie Couric Media'Another masterpiece of storytelling.' Booklist'Not just a ripping good mystery, but a meticulous character study.' Los Angeles Magazine

Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America's most acclaimed writers. A brilliant philosophy student attempts to seduce her renowned mentor but finds herself outmaneuvered. Diabolically clever high school girls exact vengeance on local sexual predators, while a woman stalked by a would-be killer may be confiding in the wrong former lover. Another young woman grapples with her unsettling new role as a mother. The collection's longest story features a much-praised writer who cruelly experiments with drafts of his own suicide. Through these powerfully wrought narratives, the author reflects on themes of erotic obsession, thwarted idealism, and shifting identities. The collection is provocative and stunning, reinforcing the author's status as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life. Critics have praised the work as 'electric,' 'alluringly dark and spiky,' and 'brilliant - bloodied, breathless, weird.' The stories are dark and unsettling, with a simmering violence that serves as a disquieting alarm. The author is recognized as an inspired writer and formidable psychologist.

From Joyce Carol Oates comes an unbearably taut tale combining folklore, adolescent insecurity and blood sacrifice, and six other, nightmarish, stories.

A collection of crime and suspense tales by National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates.

From 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.

A new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery and suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life.

A collection of four never-before-seen novellas. In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful pieces, Joyce Carol Oates writes about women facing threats past and present.

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.

'America's preeminent fiction writer' New Yorker 'A raw, propulsive tale of love and grief' Mail on Sunday

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.

Oates presents four chilling novellas that delve into the unsettling aspects of human nature, expertly blending horror with psychological depth. Each story captivates with its haunting themes and complex characters, ensuring an immersive experience that evokes both fear and fascination. Readers can expect a gripping exploration of darkness and the macabre, solidifying Oates' reputation as a master of the genre.

Enfant, Abby est tourmentée chaque nuit par un rêve récurrent où elle marche sur un champ jonché de crânes et d'os. En tant qu'adulte, elle pense avoir laissé ce rêve derrière elle, jusqu'à la veille de son mariage, lorsque le terrible rêve revient et la confronte aux sombres secrets qu'elle a cachés à Willem, son futur époux. Le lendemain, à peine mariée, Abby est percutée par un bus. Alors qu'elle est à l'hôpital, entre le coma et l'éveil, Willem cherche à déterminer si l'accident est un simple malheureux incident ou un acte intentionnel, découvrant des indices mystérieux sur ce que sa femme pourrait dissimuler. Pourquoi a-t-elle une étrange marque rouge autour du poignet ? Qu'est-ce qui la trouble tant dans ses rêves qu'elle se réveille en criant ? Peu à peu, Abby s'ouvre à son mari et lui confie des secrets jamais révélés. "Poursuite" nous entraîne à travers des fragments de pensée, d'une narration à l'autre, reflétant la déchire de la protagoniste entre présent, passé et rêve, où réalité et cauchemar s'entrelacent jusqu'à un final haletant.

The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society

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

Once 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.

The brilliant young detective-hero Xavier Kilgarven is confronted with three baffling cases that tax his genius for detection to the utmost, just as his forbidden passion for his cousin Perdita becomes an obsession that shapes his life

An ingenious dystopian novel of one young womans resistance against the constraints of an oppressive societyWhen 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.

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. 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.

`The story of Trump's America' Daily Mail Two families. Two faces of America. One violent crime that will bitterly divide them - and yet bind them together forever. A magnificent story of two broken families' Independent Page-turning, gripping, full of unexpected twists' Observer From its dramatic opening, with the killing of an abortionist, the book rockets forwards ... Ingenious, agile, dazzling' Literary Review Morally meaty and always readable' Sunday Times *A masterpiece' Washington Post

Hopper ist Kult: 17 Stories von namhaften US-Autoren zu berühmten Gemälden des weltbekannten Malers.Jedes Bild erzählt eine Geschichte. Für die Gemälde von Edward Hopper (1882 - 1967), einer Ikone der modernen amerikanischen Malerei, gilt das in besonderem Maße. Seine Porträts von Menschen, die auf rätselhafte Weise in ihre Einsamkeit versunken scheinen, lassen der Phantasie einen weiten Spielraum. Siebzehn renommierte US-Autoren haben sich inspirieren lassen, jede(r) von einem anderen Bild. Ihre Geschichten setzen dort an, wo das Gemälde als Momentaufnahme zwangsläufig aufhören muss, erzählen weiter, was verborgen in der Mimik, der Körpersprache der Figuren und in der festgehaltenen Szene zu erspüren ist. Entstanden ist eine vielschichtige, faszinierende Kollektion von Stories über die menschliche Existenz und ihre Abgründe. Realistisch, anrührend, beunruhigend - immer aber fesselnd und überraschend. Mit Geschichten von Stephen King, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Block u.a.

Six tales to chill the blood from the unique imagination of Joyce Carol Oates.

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.

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.

A psychologically complex thriller that examines the fine line between genius and madness.

Ce n'était pas comme si elle ne nous avait pas prévenues. Ce n'était pas comme si elle ne nous y avait pas préparées. Nous savions que quelque chose n'allait pas ces derniers mois. Mais Tink n'a pas vraiment disparu. Tink est partie et pourtant – elle est là quelque part, même si nous ne pouvons la voir.

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.

Il giallo è una vera e propria sfumatura dell'animo umano, un imprevisto dietro l'angolo che in un istante ci catapulta in una dimensione inattesa. E in questa raccolta, a indagare sulle ombre della realtà quotidiana sono le migliori firme della letteratura americana contemporanea: da Michael Connelly, che ci racconta cosa si nasconde dietro l'ennesimo incidente successo nel buio di Mulholland Drive, a Alice Munro, che disvela l'indicibile e crudele segreto risalente all'infanzia di due donne ormai adulte; da James Lee Burke, che ci proietta nei bassifondi della provincia intorno a una New Orleans distrutta dall'uragano Katrina, a Joyce Carol Oates, che illumina la tensione che cova in una casa in una piccola cittadina dello Stato di New York tra un padre cieco e due figlie separate dagli eventi della vita, fino poi a Elizabeth Strout, Holly Goddard Jones e molti altri. Venti storie diverse unite da una grande scrittura e da una capacità magnetica di sorprendere il lettore.

In 20th century Princeton, New Jersey, a powerful curse, which besets the wealthiest of families, causes the disappearance of a young bride, and when her brother sets out to find her, he crosses paths with the town's most formidable people, including Grover Cleveland and Upton Sinclair.

Daddy Love's latest victim Robbie begins to realize that the longer he is locked in the shackles of this demon, the greater chance he'll end up like Daddy Love's other 'sons' who were never heard from again . . . and soon he will see just what lengths he must go to in order to have any chance at survival.

Niemand hat Amerika so sehr den Puls gefühlt wie Joyce Carol Oates. Ihre Helden sind unsichere Existenzen. Männer werden zu Jägern und Frauen zu wehrlosen Wildtieren, die es zu erlegen gilt. Nicht immer endet es mit dem Tod, aber das Gleichgewicht ist nachhaltig gestört. Eine amerikanische Chronik lautet der Untertitel der grandiosen neunzehn Erzählungen, die zwischen 1963 und 1999 entstanden sind. Da erschießt eine Mutter ihre drei Kinder, weil sie ihren neuen Liebhaber nicht verlieren will. Da drechselt ein morbider Richter aus den Knochen seiner Opfer elfenbeinerne Schmuckstücke. Da weiß die drogensüchtige Melanie still zu halten, wenn sie die Männer bedient, aus Angst, dass wieder der Würgegriff angewendet wird. Elende Ehen, gewaltbereite Männner, gedemütigte Frauen, die Familie ist kein Zufluchtsort, rassistische Übergriffe, die Arglosen sind alles andere als arglos. Auch hier zeigt sich Oates als geniale Beobachterin menschlicher Abgründe, sie weiß das dunkle Ich, die zerstörerischen Leidenschaften in brillant bedrückenden Geschichten einzufangen. Oates Einblicke in das Durchschnittsleben, das schnell zur Hölle werden kann, sind grandios, schockierend und trotz allem tröstend.

A superb collection of taut and unsettling stories from one of America's literary giants.

Etouffée par la boue : voilà comment aurait du finir la petite "Mudgirl", si un couple de Quakers ne l'avait pas sauvée in extremis des griffes de sa mère démente. Pendant des années, ses parents adoptifs la protégeront des conséquences de son ignoble passé. Adulte, devenue présidente d'une université de renom, elle doit retourner sur les lieux de son enfance. Confrontée à ses origines et à des angoisses professionnelles qui la rongent de manière imprévisible, elle sombre peu à peu dans la folie...

Die attraktive Teena wird von einer Gruppe Männer vergewaltigt; ihre Peiniger lassen sie hilflos liegen. Ihre zwölfjährige Tochter Bethie muss hilflos zusehen und entkommt nur knapp dem gleichen Schicksal. Doch ihr Leiden ist damit noch nicht zu Ende – die Vergewaltiger drohen straffrei auszugehen. Fesselnd und eindringlich erzählt J. C. Oates die Geschichte von Teena, Bethie und ihren Peinigern – aber auch die ihres heimlichen Beschützers, der im Hintergrund um Gerechtigkeit für die Frau und ihre Tochter kämpft – und um deren Liebe.

Jeffery Deaver, Joyce Carol Oates, Jim Thompson, Dennis Lehane, Elmore Léonard e lo stesso Ellroy: sono solo alcuni dei trentacinque autori presenti in questa antologia. Quelli qui raccolti sono storie uniche, spesso inedite in Italia, che ci conducono nelle strade di campagna della provincia o nei vicoli bui delle grandi metropoli americane. Racconti che spaziano dalle atmosfere fumose degli anni Venti fino alle tinte horror delle vicende ambientate ai giorni nostri. Storie cupe e morbose, violente e avvincenti, ricche di colpi di scena e suspense, che in molti casi sono state portate sul grande schermo.

Niemand hat Amerika so sehr den Puls gefühlt wie Joyce Carol Oates. Ihre Helden sind unsichere Existenzen. Männer werden zu Jägern und Frauen zu wehrlosen Wildtieren, die es zu erlegen gilt. Nicht immer endet es mit dem Tod, aber das Gleichgewicht ist nachhaltig gestört. Eine amerikanische Chronik lautet der Untertitel der grandiosen neunzehn Erzählungen, die zwischen 1963 und 1999 entstanden sind. Da erschießt eine Mutter ihre drei Kinder, weil sie ihren neuen Liebhaber nicht verlieren will. Da drechselt ein morbider Richter aus den Knochen seiner Opfer elfenbeinerne Schmuckstücke. Da weiß die drogensüchtige Melanie still zu halten, wenn sie die Männer bedient, aus Angst, dass wieder der Würgegriff angewendet wird.

Joyce Carol Oates is not only one of our most important novelists and literary critics, she is also an unparalleled master of the short story. Sourland—sixteen previously uncollected stories that explore the power of violence, loss, and grief to shape the psyche as well as the soul—shows us an author working at the height of her powers. With lapidary precision and an unflinching eye, Oates maps the surprising contours of “ordinary” life, from a desperate man who dons a jack-o'-lantern head as a prelude to a most curious sort of courtship to a beguiling young woman librarian whose amputee state attracts a married man and father; from a girl hopelessly in love with her renegade, incarcerated cousin to the concluding title story of an unexpectedly redemptive love rooted in radical aloneness and isolation. Each story in Sourland resonates beautifully with Oates's trademark fascination for the unpredictable amid the prosaic—the commingling of sexual love and violence, the tumult of family life—and shines with her predilection for dark humor and her gift for voice.

Joyce Carol Oates und Raymond Smith waren über ein halbes Jahrhundert ein Paar. Im Moment seines Todes ist Oates nicht nur dem Schmerz des Verlustes und dem Alleinsein ausgesetzt, sondern auch der Tatsache, weiterleben zu müssen. Wie sieht ein Leben aus, wenn der Mensch nicht mehr da ist, mit dem man in Freundschaft und Liebe, in Höhen und Tiefen alles geteilt hat? Nie zuvor hat Oates so tiefen Einblick in ihr Innerstes gegeben. Hier tut sie es, bewegend, klug und überraschend. Wir lernen eine andere Joyce Carol Oates kennen: eine starke Frau, die am Ende sagen kann »Dies ist jetzt mein Leben«.

Edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio, "Stories" is a groundbreaking collection that features diverse tales from renowned authors. This anthology expands the boundaries of imaginative fiction, challenging misconceptions and showcasing the power of storytelling to transform perspectives and ignite appreciation for exceptional literature.

Replete with the emotional intensity and pathos for which Joyce Carol Oates is lauded, these fourteen stories explore the intimate lives of contemporary American families: the tangled relationship between generations, the desperation of loving more than one is loved in return. In "Cutty Sark" and "Landfill," the bond between adolescent son and mother reverberates with the force of an unspoken passion. The gripping title story finds Oates boldly reimagining the true-crime story of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who drowned her children in 2001. Several stories offer a more lighthearted reprieve, examining with dark humor the shadowy intersection between self-awareness and delusion.

Joyce Carol Oatesová, velmi oblíbená a úspěšná americká prozaička, ztvárnila v erotické romanci zároveň napínavý kriminální příběh. Mladá manželka a matka je brutálně zavražděna, a policie začne podezírat jak jejího manžela, tak dlouholetého milence. Na tomto pozadí se rozvíjí osudová láska jejich potomků, dcery zavražděné a syna milence, kteří jsou ale přesvědčeni o tom, že vinen je otec toho druhého. Příběh je vyprávěn paralelně hlasy obou, ve vyprávění se mísí mistrný popis milostného vztahu s pasážemi, líčícími jejich vnitřní pochybnosti a muka.

Nel 1983, un efferato delitto scuote la cittadina di Sparta, in America. Zoe Kruller, cameriera e cantante di bluegrass, viene brutalmente strangolata nella casa dove vive con un'amica, dopo aver lasciato il marito pellerossa e il figlio Aaron. I sospetti ricadono su Eddy Diehl, con cui Zoe aveva una relazione, e l'accusa innesca un meccanismo perverso che distrugge la sua vita e quella della sua famiglia. Krista, la figlia di Eddy, è testimone silenziosa della vicenda e, legata al padre, è convinta della sua innocenza. Rievoca la figura paterna e gli anni segnati da un trauma profondo. La sua esistenza si intreccia con quella di Aaron, un ragazzo problematico che porta il peso del suo retaggio indiano. Entrambi, segnati dalla perdita dei genitori, si ritrovano coinvolti in un amore acerbo e inespresso, affrontando i loro sentimenti solo da adulti. Questo romanzo di formazione, cupo e romantico, combina una lirica sensualità con una tragica violenza, dove tenerezza e crudeltà si intrecciano. Ambientato nel nord dello Stato di New York, il racconto esplora i recessi della società americana con poetica lucidità, confermando l'autrice come una delle voci più sensibili della letteratura contemporanea.

Sixteen-year-old Katya Spivak is out for a walk on the gracious streets of Bayhead Harbor with her two summer babysitting charges when she's approached by silver-haired, elegant Marcus Kidder. At first his interest in her seems harmless, even pleasant; like his name, a sort of gentle joke. His beautiful home, the children's books he's written, his classical music, the marvelous art in his study, his lavish presents to her -- Mr. Kidder's life couldn't be more different from Katya's drab working-class existence back home in South Jersey, or more enticing. But by degrees, almost imperceptibly, something changes, and posing for Mr. Kidder's new painting isn't the lighthearted endeavor it once was. What does he really want from her? And how far will he go to get it? In the tradition of Oates's classic story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" "A Fair Maiden "is an unsettling, ambiguous tale of desire and control.

This collection, edited by Joyce Carol Oates and Christopher R. Beha, showcases the finest short stories by contemporary American writers. It serves as an essential overview of modern short fiction, highlighting the talents of today's literary masters.

"New York Times"-bestselling author Oates is back with this dark, wry, captivating tale, inspired by an unsolved true-crime mystery.

En 1936, les Schwart, une famille d'émigrants fuyant désespérément l'Allemagne nazie, échouent dans une petite ville du nord de l'État de New York où le père, Jacob, un ancien professeur de lycée, ne se voit offrir qu'un travail de fossoyeur-gardien de cimetière. Un quotidien fait d'humiliations, de pauvreté et de frustrations va les pousser à une épouvantable tragédie dont Rebecca, la benjamine des trois enfants, sera le témoin. Ainsi débute l'étonnante vie à multiples rebonds de Rebecca Schwart: après avoir épousé Niles Tignor, un homme abusif et dangereux, elle doit fuir pour protéger son petit garçon, et tenter de se reconstruire. Les villes, les métiers, les hommes défilent, jusqu'à sa rencontre avec Chet Gallagher, promesse d'un bonheur enfin possible. Mais surgit alors le désir profond, d'abord inconscient, de retrouver son passé cruel de "fille du fossoyeur", de se rattacher en fin de compte à sa véritable identité. Le destin ne le lui permettra qu'au terme d'une existence d'intranquillité, dans les dernières pages bouleversantes de ce roman. L'apprentissage des hommes, du mariage, de la maternité, les combats d'une femme dans la société américaine de l'après-guerre racontés par Joyce Carol Oates au sommet de son talent, font de ce livre un hymne inoubliable à la résilience et à la survie.

Elles se rencontrent au cœur des années soixante-dix, camarades de chambre dans un collège prestigieux. Genna, héritière d’un fondateur, est issue d'un milieu riche et « radical chic », tandis que Minette Swift, boursière afro-américaine, vient d'une école communale de Washington. Genna, rongée par la culpabilité de son éducation élitiste, se sent obligée de protéger Minette des autres étudiantes. Elle voit en elle moins une personne qu'un symbole d'une lutte contre l'oppression, malgré le caractère impérieux et sarcastique de Minette, animée par un fanatisme religieux. Genna, quant à elle, est guidée par une piété bien intentionnée mais inefficace, ce qui l’aveugle jusqu'à une tragédie finale. Quinze ans plus tard, elle tente de comprendre cet événement, offrant une réflexion intime sur les tensions raciales en Amérique. Ce roman aborde la question raciale avec une écriture fine et féroce, décrivant les tourments de l'âme et la perte de l'adolescence, tout en évoquant les contradictions d'une société américaine en proie à des tensions ségrégationnistes. Les critiques saluent son exploration des fièvres et utopies de l'époque, ainsi que la rigueur avec laquelle elle reconstitue ces années marquées par le mouvement hippie et la guerre du Vietnam.

The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, edited by Greg Johnson, offers a rare glimpse into the private thoughts of this extraordinary writer, focusing on excerpts written during one of the most productive decades of Oates's long career. Far more than just a daily account of a writer's writing life, these intimate, unrevised pages candidly explore her friendship with other writers, including John Updike, Donald Barthelme, Susan Sontag, Gail Godwin, and Philip Roth. It presents a fascinating portrait of the artist as a young woman, fully engaged with her world and her culture, on her way to becoming one of the most respected, honored, discussed, and controversial figures in American letters.

A Controversial, Painfully Intimate Depiction Of Race In America By The Esteemed Author Of We Were The Mulvaneys , Blonde And The Falls . Fifteen Years After The Mysterious Death Of Minette Swift A 19-Year-Old Black Girl Enrolled As A Scholarship Student In An Exclusive Liberal Arts College Her Former Roommate Genna Begins An Unofficial Enquiry Into The Traumatic Event. In Reconstructing The Girls' Tumultuous Freshman Year At The College, Genna Is Led Also To Reconstruct Her Life As The Daughter Of A Famous Radical-Hippie-Lawyer Of The 1960S Among Whose Clients Were Anti-Vietnam War Protesters Wanted By The Fbi. What Follows Is A Gripping And Personal Portrayal Of 'Black' And 'White' In America In The Years Of Crisis Following The End Of The Vietnam War, And The Ignominious Exposure And Fall Of President Richard Nixon.

Jenna Abbott separates her life into two categories: before the wreck and after the wreck . Before the wreck, she was leading a normal life with her mom in suburban New York. After the wreck, she is alone, desperate to forget what happened that day on the bridge. Then Jenna meets Crow, and her life is once again turned upside down. He begins to break down the wall that Jenna has built around her emotions. But can she bring herself to face the memories she's tried so hard to erase?

Prepare to meet the most seductively female and shockingly fatal femme fatales, brought to you by seventeen of today’s finest authors of mystery and suspense fiction. Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents a collection of short, sizzling masterpieces filled with thrilling tales that showcase how sexy and fierce the 'gentler sex' can be. In 'Third Party', a party girl takes you on a wild ride through the Paris night, while Nelson DeMille's 'Rendezvous' plunges you into a Vietnam jungle where the deadliest scourge is a woman. Elmore Leonard introduces a Depression-era teenage gun moll in 'Louly and Pretty Boy', who loves Pretty Boy Floyd more than robbing filling stations. Lorenzo Carcaterra's 'A Thousand Miles from Nowhere' features a smart blonde seeking slow-simmered vengeance, and Michael Connelly's 'Cielo Azul' reveals how a nameless woman found dead in Los Angeles can be the most lethal prey. Other riveting tales include a scorned lover claiming an old fling's heart, a mysterious woman offering a tempting suicide pact, and a she-demon rising from the grave. These and many other bad girls cast their criminal spells through the powerful voices of Joyce Carol Oates, John Connolly, Thomas H. Cook, Jeffrey Deaver, and more, in stories as irresistible as the anti-heroines that blaze through their pages.

Psychologická novela popisující osudovou událost v životě svobodomyslné, živé a energické mladé ženy a její dospívající dcerky. Touto událostí se stalo hromadné znásilnění mladé ženy, jejíž život už nikdy nebyl jako předtím. Celou událostí trpí nejen matka, ale i její dcerka, jež sice unikla aktu znásilnění, přesto byla útočníky zbita. Autorka se věnuje nejen postiženým ženám, ale soustředí svou pozornost na společnost, která ženy v rozhodujícím okamžiku nepodpoří, spíše je odsoudí. Celá rodina neunikne pomluvám, které se na malém městě tak rychle šíří. Jediný, u koho ženy naleznou pochopení a nakonec i zastání, je mlčenlivý policista John Dromoor, jenž velmi nenápadně, o to důrazněji a účinněji bere spravedlnost do vlastních rukou.

Ils étaient cinq. Ivres, camés. L'ordinaire de leurs samedis soir, quoi... Peut-être encore plus excités ce samedi-là, au soir du 4 juillet, la fête nationale. Vers minuit, la belle Tina Maguire a eu le tort de couper court à travers le parc pour rentrer plus vite chez elle avec sa gamine Bethie, 12 ans. Ils l'ont laissée pour morte dans le hangar à bateaux. Une tournante comme on n'ose pas en imaginer. Une abomination à laquelle a assisté, réfugiée derrière un tas de vieux canoës, la petite fille. Qui a pu finalement se traîner jusqu'à la route pour appeler au secours, et a sauvé ainsi sa mère. Sauvé ? Pas des griffes d'avocats de haut vol, ni de l'incompétence des procureurs, ni des propos de certaines bonnes âmes: elle l'a bien cherché... en fait elle l'a cherché tout court. Ça lui pendait au nez... Elle risque désormais de mourir vraiment, Tina. Et Bethie ne peut que prier pour l'intervention miraculeuse d'un ange vengeur. Justement il est là, dans l'ombre. Un flic épris de justice. Épris tout court. Le héros silencieux d'une histoire d'amour peu banale, racontée avec une éblouissante violence par une Joyce Carol Oates à son meilleur.

Weymouth, New Jersey. Agent immobilier le jour et photographe la nuit, Matt McBride semble heureux. Qui se douterait qu'il n'a pas oublié le cadavre atrocement mutilé de Marcey Mason, découvert jadis dans un ravin ? Aujourd'hui encore, il est certain c ce meurtre aurait pu être évité s'il avait été moins indifférent au charme de la jeune fille. Aussi, quand il apprend que son amie Diana Zwolle a récemment disparu, impossible ne pas lier les deux affaires. A croire que Matt porte malheur et qu'il a raison de se sentir coupable. Même s'il est innocent. Ce qui n'est pas évident à prouver. Surtout à la police, qui le soupçonne d'être le tueur qu'elle recherche. Comme expliquer que culpabilité et innocence sont parfois affaire de nuances ?

Elle est allongée sur le sol du garage. Inerte. Ses jolis vêtements sont imprégnés de sang. Épouvantée, Nikki secoue sa mère. En vain. Devant ce corps déjà froid, elle doit se rendre à l'évidence : on l'a assassinée. Pour la retenir encore un peu, Nikki enquête auprès de ses proches, ose les questions qu'elle n'a pas eu le temps de poser. Les réponses ont un parfum de révélations...

"C’était en novembre, un mardi après l’entraînement de natation. La chose avec Mr. Tracy, le prof d’anglais de Darren. La chose, c’est en ces termes que Darren y penserait par la suite. La chose, un mot vague, indéfini. La chose qui n’était pas arrivée de toute façon." Darren est, à seize ans, un des espoirs de l’équipe de natation. Timide mais très séduisant, sa beauté lumineuse lui attire toutes les faveurs, y compris celle de son professeur d’anglais Mr. Tracy. Mais ce dernier fait renvoyer un des copains de l’équipe de natation. Les amis de Darren décident alors de se venger et adressent au proviseur un courrier anonyme accusant Tracy de pédophilie… Joyce Carol Oates explore, avec talent et justesse, la quête identitaire d’un jeune de seize ans dans une société de préjugés où il n’a plus de repères.

Joyce Carol Oates zeigt, wie man eine Geschichte zu etwas Außergewöhnlichem macht, einen Roman zum Leben erweckt und warum ein Schriftsteller nicht nur Künstler, sondern auch literarischer Handwerker sein muss. Es geht um Inspiration, Erinnerung, Selbstkritik und die 'einzigartige Macht des Unbewussten'. Darüber hinaus verrät sie Persönliches, bietet Ratschläge für junge oder angehende Schriftsteller an und schreibt über den Einfluss fiktiver Figuren auf den Autor und welche Wechselbäder er bei seiner Arbeit erlebt und nicht zuletzt, warum es so wichtig ist, viel zu lesen, wenn man schreiben will. In vierzehn Kapiteln erklärt sie in Beim Schreiben allein, wie Sprache, Ideen und Erfahrungen zusammenfließen, um Kunst entstehen zu lassen.

Elles s'appellent Poupée, Lucrétia ou encore Kristine. Toutes semblent inoffensives. Derrière leurs visages angéliques, un mal sournois se tapit, attendant le moment propice pour se manifester : ce sont des tueuses. Joyce Carol Oates saisit au vol cette fulgurance meurtrière et observe tranquillement le venin agir et le sang se répandre.

These Pulitzer Prize-winning stories represent the major short works of fiction by one of the most distinctively American stylists of her day. Jean Stafford communicates the small details of loneliness and connection, the search for freedom and the desire to belong, that not only illuminate whole lives but also convey with an elegant economy of words the sense of the place and time in which her protagonists find themselves. This volume also includes the acclaimed story "An Influx of Poets," which has never before appeared in book form.

It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself into the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. Ariah, "the Widow Bride of the Falls," begins a relentless seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to be found. At her side is confirmed bachelor and pillar of the community Dirk Burnaby, who is unexpectedly drawn to this plain, strange woman. What follows is a passionate love affair, marriage, and family--a seemingly perfect existence. But the tragedy by which they were thrown together begins to shadow them, damaging their idyll with distrust, greed, and even murder. Set against the mythic-historic backdrop of Niagara Falls in the mid-twentieth century, this haunting exploration of the American family in crisis is a stunning achievement from "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nation).

The collection features nineteen compelling stories that explore the diverse experiences of contemporary Americans. Themes of love, courage, and personal transformation are prevalent, as seen in a young wife's unexpected joy in an affair, a girl's life-altering decision to unveil a family secret, and a harrowing tale of survival against a serial killer. Additionally, a nostalgic adventure unfolds with two NYU students who protect a disguised Marilyn Monroe, capturing the essence of youthful exploration and secret identities.

Au matin de sa nuit de noces, Ariah Littrell découvre que son époux s'est jeté dans les chutes du Niagara. Durant sept jours et sept nuits, elle erre au bord du gouffre, à la recherche de son destin brisé. Celle que l'on surnomme désormais « la Veuve blanche des Chutes » attire pourtant l'attention d'un brillant avocat. Une passion aussi improbable qu'absolue les entraîne, mais la malédiction rôde... Prix Femina étranger 2005

Imagine what a dictionary might look like about thirty years hence, when all of the world's problems are solved and our current dictionaries are a distant memory. Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss have lined up an incredible array of writers to bring you that futuristic dictionary and a vision of the world as it might be. Think of it as a dictionary of language for describing what the future could look like a dictionary that is both useful and romantic, hopeful and necessary, pragmatic and idealistic, and frequently funny. This is science fiction but with a difference.

With her unique, masterful balance of dark suspense and surprising tenderness, Oates probes the tragedy of ethnic hatred and challenges accepted limits of desire.

Franky a tout pour être heureuse: un père riche et célèbre, une mère artiste et adorable, une somptueuse maison. Mais les apparences sont parfois trompeuses. Sous ses airs de jeune fille sage ne cache-t-elle pas, elle-même, une adolescente rebelle, assoiffée de justice qu'elle surnomme Zarbie? En fait, Franky sent bien que quelque chose ne va pas. De là à imaginer le drame puise prépare sous son toit... Il faudra beaucoup de courage à Franky pour laisser Zarbie lui ouvrir les yeux sur la vérité. Un irrésistible suspens psychologique et bouleversant, que l'on garde en soi . Le second roman pour adolescents de ce grand auteur américain après Nulle et grande gueule.

»Meisterhaft inszeniert sind diese Balanceakte, zu schade für einen schnellen Leser, der über die Details nur hinwegfliegt.« Die Zeit »Alles an ihr hatte zwei Seiten, eine für zu Hause und eine für alles, was nicht ihr Zuhause war: ihr Gang, der kindlich und hüpfend sein konnte, aber auch schlendernd, so dass man denken konnte, sie lausche einer Musik, die in ihrem Kopf spielte; ihr Mund, der meistens blass war und grinste, aber rosa leuchtete an den Abenden, an denen sie ausging; ihr Lachen, das zu Hause zynisch und gedehnt war, aber nervös und leicht schrill anderswo, ähnlich dem Klimpern der Anhänger an ihrem Armband.« Wie die 15-jährige Connie stehen alle Figuren, die Joyce Carol Oates in den zehn Erzählungen des Bandes Bad Girls entwirft, mit einem Fuß in der Kindheit und dem anderen im Erwachsensein. Überwältigt von ihren Gefühlen, voller Lebenshunger und Hoffnung, voller Angst und Wut kämpfen sie rastlos mit Fantasien, die abgründiger und verwirrender nicht sein können.

Stárnoucí spisovatel a překladatel Joshua Seigl si nadevše cení svého soukromí a staromládenecké nezávislosti, nečekaná těžká choroba ho však donutí hledat si asistenta. Nakonec odmítne všechny kvalifikované uchazeče – zato v náhlém popudu zaměstná neznámou dívku s podivným tetováním, která neobratně vypomáhá v místním knihkupectví... Alma Buschová – tetované děvče – se až dosud protloukala životem všelijak; má milence (a pasáka), kterého se zoufale snaží zbavit, a zároveň zoufale touží, aby ji miloval. K novému zaměstnavateli zpočátku cítí slepou nenávist – zámožný intelektuál s židovským jménem představuje všechno, co ona v životě postrádá nebo čemu nerozumí - a tak se mu mstí: okrádá ho, pokusí se ho zabít... Během několika měsíců, v době, kdy Joshua Seigl své nemoci pomalu podléhá, se však její nenávist promění ve slepou lásku. A jeho smrtí se má dovršit i osud Almy Buschové... V temném i něžném příběhu vyprávěném z pohledu protagonistů autorka osobitým stylem zkoumá strukturu lidských vášní, mistrně konfrontuje různé citové světy a rozkrývá nejhlubší stránky lidské povahy, kořeny lásky, nenávisti a touhy.

No subject is as intensely personal to the writer as boxing. Writing about boxing means writing about oneself, compelling us to explore not only the sport but the very boundaries of civilization—what it means or should mean to be 'human.' This volume is dedicated to the dazzling career of Mike Tyson, the "prodigy" of world boxing. It offers a comprehensive portrait of the greatest boxer of our time, tracing the champion's journey from challenging beginnings to the heights of the ring, delving into both his sporting and personal experiences.