Oates: 225 books

Basada en un suceso real que sacudió al mundo, otra gran novela de la eterna candidata al premio Nobel, ganadora del Grand Prix de l'Héroïne Madame Figaro. «Oates revisa el asesinato de JonBenét Ramsey de un modo deslumbrante... Una de las mejores obras de esta oscura observadora de nuestras...

La epopeya de una mujer que debe reinventarse a sí misma. Una odisea erótica y turbulenta, intensamente provocadora y emotiva. En 1936, los Schwart, una familia de inmigrantes desesperada por escapar de la Alemania nazi, se instala en una pequeña ciudad de Estados Unidos. El padre, un profesor...

Veintiún relatos intensos y provocadores que bucean en la vida privada de hombres y mujeres corrientes. Una bella joven encerrada en una historia de amor obsesiva busca la venganza de una manera extraña y violenta. Dos hermanas adultas recuerdan la desaparición de su madre cuando eran niñas....

“Oates charts train crimes from the Victorian period to the present day, from casual murder to calculated robbery. . . . A must for true-crime addicts” (Practical Family History). Murder and robbery committed on the railways have long held a special place in British criminal history. Railways...

"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 condottieri romani spezzati tra il senso dell’onore e l’umiliazione amorosa, di compositori...

Amore e violenza, indissolubilmente legati, sono il tema di questi racconti di Joyce Carol Oates, scrittrice americana che nel 1970 ha ricevuto il National Book Award e che oggi è candidata al Premio Nobel. «Il sentimento amoroso» dice la Oates, «è probabilmente l’essenza di ciò per cui...

**A masterly work from a writer with “the uncanny ability to give us a cinemascopic vision of her America” (National Review), A Garden of Earthly Delights is the opening stanza in what would become one of the most powerful and engrossing story arcs in literature. Joyce Carol Oates’s...

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 from one abusive foster home and detention center to another, Bobbie Gotteson grew up angry,...

A female serial killer reconnects with her twin sister in this novel by an acclaimed National Book Award winner and “first-rate thriller writer” (The New York Times Book Review). Demure Lily Merrick is a dutiful housewife and mother who teaches pottery classes in upstate New York. Then,...

A young girl's disappearance rocks a community and a family in this stirring examination of grief, faith, justice, and the atrocities of war from Joyce Carol Oates, "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nation) Zeno Mayfield's daughter has disappeared into the night,...

“A poignant, nostalgic collection of literary criticism by one of America’s premier authors.” —Kirkus Reviews   In Rough Country is a sterling collection of essays, reviews, and criticism from Joyce Carol Oates that focuses on a wide array of books and writers—from Poe to...

The latest Ecco reissue of Joyce Carol Oates’ early classics: a fiery gothic tale of doomed fates and demons of biblical proportions in rural New York state ** **Nathan Vickery came into the world amid unfortunate circumstances. His mother, Elsa Vickery, daughter of an agnostic small town...

A wealthy and notorious clan, the Bellefleurs live in a region not unlike the Adirondacks, in an enormous mansion on the shores of mythic Lake Noir. They own vast lands and profitable businesses, they employ their neighbors, and they influence the government. A prolific and eccentric group, they include...

John Oates was born at the perfect time, paralleling the birth of rock ‘n roll. Raised in a small Pennsylvania town, he was exposed to folk, blues, soul, and R&B. Meeting and teaming up with Daryl Hall in the late 1960s, they developed a style of music that was uniquely their own but never abandoned...