Joyce-Carol Oates

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

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

An incomparable master storyteller in all forms, in The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares Joyce Carol Oates spins six imaginative tales of suspense.....

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

In this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might have led if we’d made different choices....

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

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....

Princeton, New Jersey, at the turn of the 20th century: a tranquil place to raise a family, a genteel town for genteel souls....

The diverse stories of Beautiful Days explore the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike ourselves....

Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God's will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town....

Matt Donaghy has always been a Big Mouth....

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

A girl comes of age with a vengeance - and help from a friend - in a tale of unnerving suspense from National Book Award winner and literary master Joyce Carol Oates....

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....

An ingenious dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society.

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....

The first novel from New York Times best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates, a thrilling, dark tale of family, revenge, and two souls intertwined by love and violence....

"Why do we write?" With this question Joyce Carol Oates begins an imaginative exploration of the writing life and all its attendant anxieties, joys, and futilities in this collection of essays....

In 1965, neuroscientist Margot Sharpe meets the attractive, charismatic Elihu Hoopes - the "man without a shadow"....