Author: joycecaroloates
A girl comes of age with a vengeance—and help from a friend—in a tale of unnerving suspense from National Book Award winner and literary master Joyce Carol Oates.Bad things have been happening since Mia began to mature. Her dad left. Boys at school can’t keep their hands to themselves. A lecherous stepfather has moved in. Her only refuge is an abandoned lot on her suburban cul-de-sac, crawling … crawling with feral felines—one of which follows Mia home. Ghostly white and affectionate, she is Mia’s new companion and—as Mia’s tormenters will soon discover—her fierce protector.Joyce Carol Oates’s Miao Dao is part…
From a National Book Award–winning author: The death of a prominent small-town patriarch affects his widow and their adult children in unexpected ways. “Poetic… A complex and nuanced portrait of a grieving family” (Library Journal).
From a National Book Award–winning author: In the near future, a young woman is cast out of society and exiled back in time to 1959 Wisconsin — where she begins to question the nature of her own world. A “clever, brain-twisting, Poe-like fable” (Booklist starred review).
A Pulitzer Prize finalist: This dazzling novel follows American girl Norma Jeane as she transforms into Marilyn Monroe. ”Blonde is one mighty, tremendous book… Oates has become most like William Faulkner” (The Nation).
An Oprah Book Club® selectionA New York Times Notable BookThe Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet. But something happens on Valentine’s Day, 1976—an incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of in the Mulvaney home—that rends the fabric of their family life…with tragic consequences. Years later, the youngest son attempts to piece together the fragments of the … piece together the fragments of the Mulvaneys’ former glory, seeking to uncover and understand the secret violation that brought about the family’s tragic downfall.Profoundly cathartic, this extraordinary novel unfolds as if Oates, in plumbing the darkness…
This poignant reflection from a National Book Award–winning author chronicles the sudden loss of her husband of nearly 50 years. “Shines a bright light in every corner in her soul-searing memoir of widowhood” (Publishers Weekly).
A New York Times bestselling author and “master of psychological dread” (Publishers Weekly) presents a chilling collection: From a girl kept in a basement and prepared for sacrifice to a lonely woman who makes a terrible decision, these tales are “psychologically compelling and disturbing” (Library Journal).