Joyce Carol Oates

In this striking, enormously affecting novel, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families. Luther Dunphy is a zealous evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God’s will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town, while Augustus Voorhees, the idealistic but self-regarding doctor […]

En skräckens mästare, en kontroversiell och självutlämnande poet, en jazzålderns främste skildrare och en skarpögd och älskad samtidsförfattare – här hittar du fyra amerikanska storheters sällsamma och suggestiva berättelser om livet och döden, om drömmar; och om ren och skär fara. Presentask med fyra amerikanska klassiker: Huset Ushers undergång – Edgar Allen Poe Johnny Panic och drömbibeln – Sylvia Plath […]

‘Oates is simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going, as far as I’m concerned’ – Gillian Flynn Six terrifying tales to chill the blood from the unique imagination of Joyce Carol Oates. A young boy plays with dolls instead of action figures. But as he grows older, his passion takes on […]

A momentous memoir of childhood and adolescence from one of our finest and most beloved writers, as we’ve never seen her before. In The Lost Landscape, Joyce Carol Oates vividly recreates the early years of her life, powerfully evoking the romance of childhood and the way it colours everything that comes after. With memoriesranging from […]

In 1965, a young research scientist named Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes, the subject of her study, a handsome amnesiac who cannot remember anything beyond the last seventy seconds. Over the course of thirty years