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In Evil Eye, Oates offers four chilling tales about love so powerful that people might die-or kill-for it. In the title story, we meet Mariana, the young fourth wife of a prominent intellectual. When her husband's first wife comes to visit, Mariana learns a terrible secret that threatens her marriage and sanity. In "So Near Any Times Always, ” shy teenager Lizbeth meets Desmond, a charming older boy who offers the first spark of romance. Yet a...

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 Mulvaneys' former glory, seeking to uncover and unders...

For this new edition, Oates has rewritten and revised three-fourths of her novel. In her Afterword she writes about revisiting a novel originally penned at the age of 26.

The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected--and most popular--of its kind. The Best American M...

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

Oates pens a mesmerizing portrayal of Jesse Vogel: his tragic childhood, his pursuit of a career in neurosurgery, and his loss of his daughter to the counterculture.

In her first novel for young adults, acclaimed author Oates creates a provocative and unflinching story of friendship and family, loyalty and betrayal that hits close to home.

Written with the raw honesty and poignant insight that were the hallmarks of her acclaimed bestseller A Widow's Story, an affecting and observant memoir of growing up from one of our finest and most beloved literary masters.The Lost Landscape is Joyce Carol Oates' vivid chronicle of her hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State. From memories of her relatives, to those of a charming bond with a special red hen on her family farm, ...

Vintage Oates . . . short, sharp shots . . . from the master of moody foreboding."-- "Kirkus Reviews." "If the phrase 'woman of letters' existed, she would be, foremost in this country, entitled to it."--John Updike.

From Joyce Carol Oates, an exquisite, psychologically complex thriller about opposing forces within the mind of one ambitious writer and the delicate line between genius and madness.Andrew J. Rush has achieved the kind of critical and commercial success most authors only dream about: He has a top agent and publisher in New York, and his twenty-eight mystery novels have sold millions of copies. Only Stephen King, one of the few mystery writers ...

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From Joyce Carol Oates, an exquisite, psychologically complex thriller about opposing forces within the mind of one ambitious writer and the delicate line between genius and madness.Andrew J. Rush has achieved the kind of critical and commercial success most authors only dream about: He has a top agent and publisher in New York, and his twenty-eight mystery novels have sold millions of copies. Only Stephen King, one of the few mystery writers ...

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Joyce Carol Oates and other illustrious writers explore Jersey noir.

Lovecraftian horror and weird fiction exclusively from female authors, Dreams from the Witch House includes fiction by Joyce Carol Oates, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Gemma Files, Lois H. Gresh, Christine Morgan, Storm Constantine and many more. Color Illustrated by Artist Daniele Serra

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The Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling novel We Were the Mulvaneys "Taut, powerfully imagined and beautifully written, Black Water ranks with the best of Joyce Carol Oates's already long list of distinguished achievements. It can be read in a single afternoon, but, like every good book, it continues to haunt us."-The New York TimesKelly Kelleher is an idealistic, twenty-six-year-old "good girl" whe...

This singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America's tumultuous modern age as experienced by the nation's foremost critics, commentators, activists, and artists.

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This collection of fifty-two poems from the author of Angel Fire and Anonymous Sins explores the annihilation of the time-bound ego, a liberating, sometimes terrifying experience for all who live within the "fabulous beast" of history and nature. The poems explore the shifting, elusive point at which the inwardness of individual experience touches upon the larger consciousness of a species or an era, forming a connection with a "self" that goe...