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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...

Foxfire è una fiamma che brilla di arancione, è un tatuaggio sulla pelle. Foxfire è il nome di una «gang fuorilegge» – come la definiscono i giornali – che flagella le strade di Hammond, nello stato di New York. Foxfire sono cinque ragazze determinate a liberare la città da porci, pervertiti e violenti, pronte a farla pagare agli uomini con ogni mezzo. Guidate dalla glaciale e feroce Legs Sadovsky, Goldie, Lana, Rita e Maddy «Monkey» hanno trovato nel gruppo il rifugio da un’esistenza segnata dalla morte dei genitori, da padri assenti, alcolizzati, o da madri con crisi psicotiche.

A gripping collection of propulsive, psychologically suspenseful stories by the legendary Joyce Carol Oates “who is surely on any shortlist of America’s greatest living writers” (The New York Times Magazine) “A genius in the truest sense of the word.”—Rebecca Makkai “One of the...

Gulf War: An affluent young couple entertains an older couple for an evening of cocktails and politics during the Gulf War. But as the evening continues, the conversation take a bizarre and absurd tone. Black: In this evening of cocktails and dinner, a couple anxiously awaits the arrival of an ex-husband. As the wine glasses are drained, the evening becomes dark and intense, revealing the true colors of the characters in this eerie love triangle.

The much-anticipated reissue of a novel that is one of Joyce Carol Oates’s personal favorites among her oeuvre; featuring a new afterword by Oates IN THE HEART OF A LANGUID JULY, ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD JOHN REDDY HEART drives a traffic-stopping, salmon-colored Cadillac into the quiet upstate town of...

Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors—including Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Due, and Megan Abbott—to explore, subvert, and reinvent one of the most vital subgenres of horror.

This rich compilation of Joyce Carol Oates’s letters across four decades displays her warmth and generosity, her droll and sometimes wicked sense of humor, her phenomenal energy, and most of all, her mastery of the lost art of letter writing. In this generous selection of Joyce Carol Oates’s letters to her biographer and friend Greg Johnson, listeners will discover a never-before-seen dimension of her phenomenal talent.

When Rachel Murdock and her sister Jennifer receive a call for help from their favorite niece, Lilly, in Breakers Beach, California, they quickly hop a train from Los Angeles to see her-but not before collecting their prized cat Samantha in a picnic basket and bringing her along for the ride.