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An epic literary novel based around the life of the cultural icon that was Marilyn Monroe, which was published in hardback to great critical acclaim, and which will be backed with a major marketing campaign. "Blonde" is an epic achievement, a masterpiece, a piece of art so shatteringly well conceived and lavishly wrought that at times it does not seem like a mere book" Julie Myerson, "Independent On Sunday".

Acclaimed for her novels and short stories, Oates is also an unparalleled literary critic whose insights and commentary have appeared in such publications as the "The New York Times Book Review." This new collection brings together some of Oates's most brilliant and provocative commentaries.

When a young wife and mother named Zoe Kruller is found brutally murdered, the Sparta police target two primary suspects: her estranged husband Delray and her longtime lover Eddy Diehl. In turn, the Krullers's son Aaron and Eddy's daughter Krista become obsessed with one another, each believing the other's father is guilty. LITTLE BIRD OF HEAVEN is classic Joyce Carol Oates, in which the lyricism of intense sexual love is intertwined with the ...

Now in paperback, a gripping and moving new collection of stories by Joyce Carol Oates, which re-imagines the meaning of family--often through violent means.

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Desperate to rise above her haphazard existence of violence and poverty, and determined not to...

Selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the most notable books of 1991, Joyce Carol Oates's The Rise of Life on Earth is a memorable portrait of one of the "insulted and injured" of American society. Set in the underside of working-class Detroit of the '60s and '70s, this short, lyric novel sketches Kathleen Hennessy's violent childhood-shattered by a broken home, child-beating, and murder-and follows her into her early adult year...

Joyce Carol Oates's fourth and most distinguished collection includes three flail-length plays, Bad Girls, Black Water, The Passion of Henry David Thoreau, and eight shorter pieces, which have been performed in various cities throughout the country.Bad Girls is the story of three teenage sisters who ruin the life of the man who comes between them and their single mother, Black Water is a dramatization of Oates's widely acclaimed novel of that ...

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A riveting novel that explores the high price of successin the life of one woman, and her hold upon her self-identityin the face of personal and professional demons, from Joyce Carol Oates, author of the New York Timesbestseller A Widow's Story.Mudgirl is a child abandoned by her mother in the silty flatsof the Black Snake River. Cast aside, Mudgirl survives byan accident of fate—or destiny. Meredith "M.R." Neukirchenis the first woman preside...

Critics across the country have raved about Joyce Carol Oates’s ground-breaking memoir A Widow’s Story, lauding its blazing honesty and raw emotion, calling it “immensely moving, ” “searing, ” “enthralling, ” “brave, ” “slyly mordant, ” and “astonishingly candid.”On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton Medical Center, where he was diagnosed with pneumonia....

Darren ist 16 und sexy, aber schüchtern, ein hervorragender Schwimmer, in der Schule sonst eher mittelmäßig. Besonders beim neuen Englischlehrer Tracy hat er Probleme. Tracy aber mag ihn und will ihm helfen. Darrens Mitschüler, die sich von Tracy zu schlecht benotet fühlen, wollen sich an ihm rächen und streuen das Gerücht, er sei schwul. Damit setzen sie ein tödliches Spiel in Gang und Darren gerät in eine tiefe Krise.Mit »Sexy« ist Joyce Car...