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In these and other stories, bestselling author Oates explores with bloodcurdling insight the ties that bind--or worse.

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Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative and suspenseful look at the roiling secrets of America's affluent suburbs. Set in the late 1960s, this first-person confession is narrated by Richard Everett, a precocious and obese boy who sees himself as a minor character in the alarming drama unfol...

In these gripping and disturbing tales, women are confronted by the evil around them and surprised by the evil they find within themselves. With wicked insight, Oates demonstrates why the females of the species are by nature more deadly than the males.

A dark, wry, captivating tale, inspired by an unsolved American true crime mystery, MY SISTER MY LOVE is based on the controversial true-crime mystery of the Jon Benet Ramsey murder, 'When a beautiful, ice-skating child prodigy is found brutally murdered, suspicion immediately mounts against friends, neighbors - and even the young girl's own family', this book explores the darkest corners of the human psyche, and takes the reader into a twiste...

When her mother uncharacteristically fails to return her phone calls, 31-year old Nikki Eaton calls in to check up on her. She finds the house turned upside-down, and her mother lying dead, murdered, on the garage floor. Single, sexually liberated and economically self-supporting, Nikki has never particularly thought of herself as a daughter. She learns to cope with the unexpected loss of her mother over the course of a tumultuous year of mour...

The Key and Tone Clusters are two one-act plays by 2009 Man Booker Nominee Joyce Carol Oates.

Gulf War and Black are two one-act plays by 2009 Booker Man Nominee Joyce Carol Oates.

L.A. Theatre Works presents the exclusive dramatization of 2009 Man Booker Nominee Joyce Carol Oates best-selling novel. In American Appetites, the faade of an affluent suburban couple crumbles under the weight of tragedy and scandal. When Ian McCullough accidentally pushes his wife, Glynnis, through a plate glass window during an argument, the American dream turns into a nightmare. A sophisticated, witty and chilling tale. A full-cast product...

Exploring the issues of 'black' and 'white', this is a superb depiction of America in the 1960s from the highly critically acclaimed author of }Blonde{, }The Falls{ and }We Were The Mulvaneys{. 'The prolific Oates is bang on form with this one, ' }Metro

Joyce Carol Oates' erstes Jugendbuch hat ein sehr aktuelles Thema: Matt (Big Mouth) wird bezichtigt gedroht zu haben, einen Bombenanschlag auf seine High School verüben zu wollen. Nur Ursula (Ugly Girl) ergreift Partei für ihn.

From the author of 'Blonde', 'The Falls' and 'We Were the Mulvaneys', this new novel takes in the themes of race, immigration, family and social mobility, and is Joyce Carol Oates at her storytelling best. THE GRAVEDIGGER'S DAUGHTER tells the tale of Rebecca Schwart, born in the late 1930s to an immigrant family from Nazi Germany, just as they are arriving to America. The family settles in a small, bleak town in upstate New York, where the onl...

Hailed as "invaluable to scholars and diehard fans" and praised for its "fascinating insight" (Boston Globe), the journals of Joyce Carol Oates offer a compelling, personal look at one of the most important and productive periods of her long career.

Based on National Book Award-winner Joyce Carol Oates novella about the Chappaquiddick scandal, this tragic and beautiful new opera enthralls as a handsome Senator uses power to enchant, seduce and carelessly destroy. A full-cast production featuring: David Lee Brewer, Reid Bruton, Stephanie Buckley, Karen Burlingame, Kimberly Graham, Linda Kerns, Erin Langston, Patrick Mason, John Savarese and Rob Shacklett.

Franky Pierson tiene 14 años y pronto va a descubrir que detrás de una sonrisa, de un abrazo un poco más fuerte de lo normal o de unos ojos verdes, puede ocultarse el más terrible de los monstruos, capaz de pensar, de decir, y de hacer cualquier cosa. Pero los monstruos, cuando las cosas no son como ellos querrían, despiertan de su letargo.

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...

The story of the rise, fall and ultimate redemption of one American family, from one of America's most highly respected writers, which provides a fitting follow-up to the widely acclaimed "Blonde". This title was an Oprah Winfrey Book Club Selection, and will be heavily reviewed. "Novelists such as John Updike, Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer slug it out for the title of the Great American Novelist. But maybe they're wrong. Maybe, jus...

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La sedicenne Katya Spivak sta camminando con i due bambini a cui fa da baby sitter per Bayhead Harbour, New Jersey, quando viene avvicinata da Marcus Kidder, un uomo gentile, dai capelli grigi, uno dei cittadini più in vista della zona. All'inizio le sue attenzioni verso Katya sembrano innocue, disinteressate, al contrario quelle della ragazza sembrano precocemente manipolatorie. La sua bellissima casa in riva all'oceano, il suo essere un arti...

Todas las chicas creen que Darren es guapísimo y muy sexy, aunque también algo tímido. Incluso las profesoras bromean y comentan que podría pasar por hijo de Keanu Reeves. Él se da cuenta de que la gente le mira de forma especial cada vez que entra en la piscina y esa sensación no le gusta nada. Por eso, cuando ocurre ¿¿aquello¿¿ -así lo llama Darren al recordarlo-, el joven se siente muy confuso. En realidad, no había ocurrido nada. ¿O sí?