Carol - Libros y biografía

A NOVEL OF LOVE AND LOSS FROM BESTSELLING AND PRIZEWINNING AUTHOR JOYCE CAROL OATESAmid a starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape in New Mexico, a married couple from Cambridge, MA takes residency at...

A reissue of bestselling, award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates' classic collection of essays on boxing.

Un thriller corrosif et brillamment orchestré aux frontières de l'horreur. Hannah et Wes Jarrett forment l'une des familles les plus en vue de l'élite blanche et bourgeoise de Detroit, en cette fin des...

"This landmark study debunked the misconception that poor families were unstable and disorganized. Here is the chronicle of a young white woman's sojourn into The Flats, an African-American ghetto comm"

It's Christmas in Aspen and P.I. Regan Reilly is vacationing with her parents and hoping to meet an unmarried man. Soon, however, all thoughts of romance turn to sleuthing when million-dollar paintings...

The spunky sleuth from Decked returns. A pantyhose convention in Miami takes a deadly turn as someone tries to kill the inventor of run-less pantyhose. Murder is afoot and Regan Reilly is on the case;...

Learn how to preserve a summer day — in batches — from this classic primer on drying, freezing, canning, and pickling techniques. Did you know that a cluttered garage works just as well as a root cellar...

Les portes du paradis ne s'ouvriront pour Sterling Brooks qu'à une condition : retourner sur terre et sauver une personne en danger. Sa mission : aider Marissa, une petite fille de six ans. Ses parents...

« L’auteur de Rien de grave aime Blonde parce que c’est l’une de ses obsessions : avoir tout et finir avec rien. »Marie-Laure Delorme, Le Journal du Dimanche, 17 juillet 2008.Blonde ne ressemble à aucun...

In Feminine Gospels, Carol Ann Duffy draws on the historical, the archetypal, the biblical and the fantastical to create various visions – and revisions – of female identity. Simultaneously stripping...

Big MouthNo I did not. I did not, I did not. I did not say those things, and I did not plan those things. Won't It anyone believe me?Ugly GirlAll right, Ugly Girl made a mistake. I'd told my mom what...

Nikki Eaton, single, thirty-one, sexually liberated, and economically self-supporting, has never particularly thought of herself as a daughter. Yet, following the unexpected loss of her mother, she undergoes...

The National Book Award finalist and national bestseller exploring the life and legend of Marilyn MonroeNow a Netflix Film starring Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne NicholsonIn...

Regan Reilly plans to spend her Fourth of July week vacationing in the Hamptons at her parents' home and also with her best friend, Kit, who has a share in a group house. A last-minute phone call, however,...

Une gigantesque demeure dans la région de Chautauqua, près du mythique Lac Noir. Six générations d’une même famille l’habitent au cours du xixe siècle : les fortunés et influents Bellefleur. Ils possèdent...

“Timely, monumental. . . . Yet another piercing examination of American culture by the writer this reviewer considers our country's greatest living novelist. . . . It is brilliant. How blessed we are...

Fifteen years ago, in 1975, Genna Hewett-Meade's college roommate died a mysterious, violent, terrible death. Minette Swift had been a fiercely individualistic scholarship student, an assertive—even prickly—personality,...

“A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant.  You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs?”  --Joyce Carol Oates, My Life...

In this collection of twenty-one unforgettable stories, Joyce Carol Oates explores the mysterious private lives of men and women with vivid, unsparing precision and sympathy. By turns interlocutor and...

"For 40 years, Joyce Carol Oates has maintained a creative dialogue with the roiling cauldron of contemporary American culture, writing unflinchingly about the oddities that bubble up into the headlines."...

The first novel from New York Times-bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a thrilling, dark tale of family, revenge, and two souls intertwined by love and violence—now back in print for fans of America’s...

On a rainy night eight years ago, Evan Barrett's parents were lost at sea. In horror, he listened to their frantic Mayday calls on the ship-to-shore radio, to his mother's cries for mercy--and to the...

Jerome Corcoran, Corky, a huit ans lorsque son père est assassiné sous ses yeux. Trente ans plus tard, Corky est l’exemple même de l’homme à qui tout sourit. Promoteur immobilier fl orissant, conseiller...

A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five yearsJoyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute social...

No other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates. High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 gathers short fiction from the acclaimed author's seminal collections and includes...

Un irrésistible suspens psychologique pour un livre subtil et bouleversant. Francesca est surnommée Franky mais aussi Zarbie les yeux verts, lorsque l’adolescente rebelle pointe sous la carapace. Elle...

A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we’d chosen a different path, from a master of the short storyIn this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders...

“Oates is just a fearless writer…with her brave heart and her impossibly lush and dead-on imaginative powers.”—Los Angeles Times “[An] extraordinarily intense, racking, and resonant novel.”—Booklist (starred...

Two or Three Things I Forgot to Tell You is renowned author Joyce Carol Oates's newest novel for teens. Laurie Halse Anderson, bestselling author of Wintergirls and Speak, said that "the painful honesty...

Wymouth, New Jersey. Agent immobilier le jour et photographe la nuit, Malt McBride semble heureux. Qui se douterait qu’il n’a jamais pu oublier le cadavre atrocement mutilé de Marcey Mason, découvert...