Carol Oates: 150 books

An engrossing early novel from Joyce Carol Oates’s earlier novels explores a fraught and perilous relationship between two women Originally published in 1985, Solstice is the gripping story of Monica Jensen and Sheila Trask, two young women who are complete opposites yet find themselves...

Finally returned to print, Joyce Carol Oates's lost classic: the satirical, often surreal, and beautifully plotted Gothic romance that follows the exploits of the audacious Zinn sisters, whose nineteenth-century pursuit of adventurous lives turns a lens on contemporary American culture When...

El señor de las muñecas y otros cuentos de terror es una excepcional colección de relatos que nos atrapa desde la primera página. Historias que nos hacen vivir en medio de emociones intensas y a veces contradictorias, pero siempre con la sospecha de que lo que sucede entre los personajes, no es...

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....

En su última colección de relatos, Joyce Carol Oates ahonda en las vidas de niñas y mujeres vulnerables: unas se convierten en víctimas, mientras otras se ven incitadas, por un profundo malestar emocional, a cometer actos violentos contra los demás. En Desmembrado, el relato que da título al...

Una novela emblemática de Joyce Carol Oates, la eterna candidata al Premio Nobel. América, años cincuenta. Las familias se resquebrajan y empiezan a surgir las pandillas de adolescentes y la delincuencia. Un grupo de chicas quiere acabar con el machismo que las somete. Las integrantes de...

Après Bellefleur, voici le deuxième tome de la trilogie gothique de Joyce Carol Oates. Pensylvannie. 1789. Cinq soeurs entre seize et vingt-deux ans. La narratrice : une vierge amère. Tout commence quand Miss Deirdre Zin, fille adoptive de l’inventeur John Quincy Zin, est enlevée par un homme...

**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...

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 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...

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...

“A sobering experience . . . The power of this collection comes from the voices of these authors, voices suffused with rage, despair, and madness.” —The New York Times Book Review This anthology, with stories set in different prisons across the US, presents an absolutely new perspective...

Unlike anything Joyce Carol Oates has written before, A Widow’s Story is the universally acclaimed author’s poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of Raymond Smith, her husband of forty-six years, and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. A recent recipient of National Book Critics...