From the author of 'Blonde', 'The Falls' and 'We Were the Mulvaneys', this new novel takes in the themes of race, immigration, family and social mobility, and is Joyce Carol Oates at her storytelling best.
Joyce Carol Oates' erstes Jugendbuch hat ein sehr aktuelles Thema: Matt (Big Mouth) wird bezichtigt gedroht zu haben, einen Bombenanschlag auf seine high school verüben zu wollen. NurUrsula (Ugly Girl) ergreift Partei für ihn. Ein spannender...
A first novel for young adults from a widely respected American novelist. A novel of friendship in unlikely circumstances, with crossover appeal from fourteen upwards. "One of the greatest writers of our time" John Gardner.
A young wife is home alone when the phone rings in 'So Help Me God'. Is the strange voice flirting with her from the other end of the line her jealous husband laying a trap, or a stranger who knows entirely too much about her? In 'Madison at...
When her mother uncharacteristically fails to return her phone calls, 31-year old Nikki Eaton calls in to check up on her. She finds the house turned upside-down, and her mother lying dead, murdered, on the garage floor. Single, sexually liberated and...
Set in an apparently idyllic New England college town, "Beasts" is the story of Gillian Brauer, a student who falls in love with her professor, his Bohemian lifestyle, and antiestablishment attitudes, and what happens when she falls under his...
The senator. The girl. The accident. In her most powerful novel to date, Oates creates an unforgettable allegory about power, morals, and ambition. The ghost of an American tragedy is resurrected in order to give voice to its silenced victim--an idealisti...
Major literary novel from the author of )Blonde( and )Middle Age Now(. 7,000 copies sold in trade paperback. Paperback review coverage guaranteed. "..a massive literary heavyweight, and many earnestly believe she could knock out the other contenders...
Niemals wäre Matt auf die absurde Idee gekommen, ein Attentat auf seine Schule zu verüben. Und doch soll es Zeugen geben, die schwören, er habe damit gedroht. Matt steht unter Verdacht. Und wie es scheint, gibt es nur einen Menschen an der...