Carol Oates - Libros y biografía

In the raw was how the world felt now. My feelings were raw, my thoughts were raw and hurtful like knife blades. . . . In the blue had been my place to hide, now In the raw there was nowhere to hide.Jenna...

New York Times Bestselling AuthorBack in print in a new trade paperback edition, a classic Gothic novel from Joyce Carol Oates—a literary masterpiece of invention, artistry, and power “Bellefleur is proof...

Roland Marks is a Nobel Prize winning novelist with a penchant for younger women and four marriages behind him. Lou-Lou Marks, his grown daughter, is a successful academic in her own right. But her real...

Lydia is a graduate student in cultural anthropology—a fellow at a prestigious university, with a bright future ahead of her. Harvey, her brother, is a seminary student driven by his god-besotted studies....

“My husband died, my life collapsed.” On a February morning, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the Princeton Medical Center where he was diagnosed with pneumonia....

This eerie tale of psychological horror sees the real inhabitants of turn-of-the-century Princeton fall under the influence of a supernatural power. New Jersey, 1905: soon-to-be commander-in-chief...

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...

‘Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going’ Gillian Flynn Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates blends sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power...

"Anellia" is a young student who, though gifted with a penetrating intelligence, is drastically inclined to obsession. Funny, mordant, and compulsive, she falls passionately in love with a brilliant yet...

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 is a fearless writer.” —Los Angeles Times “Oates is a master of the dark tale—stories of the hunted and the hunter, of violence, trauma, and deep psychic wounds.”—Booklist (starred review) Sourland...

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...

"Joyce Carol Oates has written what may be the world’s finest postmodern Gothic novel: E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime set in Dracula’s castle. It’s dense, challenging, problematic, horrifying, funny, prolix...

“A mesmerizing storyteller who seems almost unnaturally able to enter the tormented inner lives of her characters.”—Denver PostBlack Dahlia & White Rose is a brilliant collection of short fiction...

A deeply intimate psychological portrait of a young woman's tragic childhood, her reinvention as a successful young artist in the literary circles of 1950s New York City, and her struggle to understand...

‘America’s preeminent fiction writer’ New Yorker ‘A raw, propulsive tale of love and grief’ Mail on Sunday A novel of love and loss from the bestselling and prizewinning...

An engrossing early novel from Joyce Carol Oates’s earlier novels explores a fraught and perilous relationship between two womenOriginally published in 1985, Solstice is the gripping story of Monica Jensen...

Finally returned to print in a beautiful new trade paperback edition, comes Joyce Carol Oates’ lost classic: a satirical, often surreal, and beautifully plotted Gothic Romance that follows the exploits...

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...

An Otto Penzler BookThe need for love—obsessive, self-destructive, unpredictable—takes us to forbidden places, as in the chilling world of Give Me Your Heart, a new collection of stories by the inimitable...

"Later, I would think of it as crossing over. From a known territory into an unknown. From a place where people know you to a place where people only think they know you." Sometimes Franky Pierson has...

La Franky creix a Seattle en una família privilegiada: el seu pare és un comentarista esportiu molt famós i la seva mare és artista i molt afectuosa. Tot a la vida dels Pierson va de meravella, des de...

‘Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going’ GILLIAN FLYNN 'Delightfully disturbing' iNEWS...

Unavailable for 40 years, this seminal novel of madness and murder is acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates' powerful trip into the mind of a maniac. Abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, shuttled...

Ammazzate. In questi sei racconti neri di Joyce Carol Oates le bambole vengono barbaramente uccise: sono animate ma condannate a tornare mute e immobili, in fila nei loro lettini di paglia, gli occhi...

4 luglio, metà anni ’90. Grayling Island, Maine. Una Toyota nera corre a tutta velocità. È notte e gli alberi riducono la visibilità. Al volante un senatore degli Stati Uniti, uomo grande e rassicurante,...

Un colpo di pistola nella notte, Bernie Malin è un uomo morto. Loretta, la giovane amante che giaceva di nascosto con lui, fugge, portando in grembo Jules, il figlio illecito di quel tragico rapporto....

Campi di segale sotto il sole abbacinante dell’Arkansas. Le mani strappano i frutti dalla terra, la terra prude e si mangia le mani. I braccianti arrancano nel meriggio insieme ai cavalli e il sogno americano...

"Buio in sala, va in scena la tragedia. Anche dopo la morte degli dèi, abbiamo continuato a rappresentare sul palco le debolezze, le ossessioni e le paure del genere umano. Che si trattasse di gloriosi...

Una Cadillac gialla si accosta al marciapiede di Labyrinth Drive. È una mattina di gennaio: c’è neve sulla strada e sull’erba. L’aria è fragrante, crepita come una lastra di ghiaccio sotto la pressione...