Joyce-Carol Oates

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 idealistic young woman too easily seduced by a Camelot fairy tale....

Two families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences....

She was an all-American girl who became a legend of unparalleled stature....

This tragic and beautiful new opera enthralls as a handsome Senator uses power to enchant, seduce, and carelessly destroy....

Eight highly diverse works from one of America’s most prolific and versatile authors....

A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls....

Zeno Mayfield's daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks....

From one of our most important contemporary writers, The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror is a bold, haunting collection of six stories....

Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all....

A brilliant and thought-provoking novel about family, loyalty and betrayal....