Carol Oates: 150 books

"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...

Uncensored: Views & (Re)views is Joyce Carol Oates's most candid gathering of prose pieces since (Woman) Writer: Occasions & Opportunities. Her ninth book of nonfiction, it brings together thirty-eight diverse and provocative pieces from the New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement,...

A tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her method Joyce Carol Oates is widely regarded as one of America's greatest contemporary literary figures. Having written in a number of genres -- prose,...

Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most revered contemporary American writers, having won numerous awards and selling millions of copies. Oates’s collections for The Mysterious Press continue to garner more and more awards attention: "The Woman in the Window" from Night-Gaunts has already been...

«Esta es la historia de cuánto echo en falta a mi madre. Algún día, de una forma única, será también tu historia.» A su treinta y un años, Nikki Eaton ha alcanzado la liberación sexual y la independencia económica. Nunca se ha visto a sí misma como «hija», sin embargo, la inesperada...

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 literary masters. The Lost Landscape is Joyce Carol Oates’ vivid chronicle of her...

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,...

Seven “masterfully told” stories of suspense and nightmarish drama from the National Book Award–winning author of Them (The Guardian). With the novella and six stories collected here, Joyce Carol Oates reaffirms her singular reputation for portraying the dark complexities of the human...

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,...

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...

"All the heavy hitters...came out for USA Noir...an important anthology of stories shrewdly culled by Johnny Temple." --New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) One of Zoom Street Magazine's Favorite Books of 2014 Indie Books Roundup #1 Pick, Barnes & Noble Book Blog Included...

Stephen King, Lisa Morton, Nell Quinn-Gibney, Norman Prentiss, Joyce Carol Oates, and Tim Curran plunge readers into the dark side in this deeply unsettling short-story collection curated by legendary horror editors Brian James Freeman and Richard Chizmar. THE OLD DUDE’S TICKER by Stephen...

Boston Noir 2: The Classics is now a Boston Globe best seller! "The contributor list is delightfully quirky...The collection's unifying element is a deep understanding of Boston's Byzantine worlds of race and class--as seen terrifyingly in Andre Dubus's tale of milltown resentment and...