In the raw was how the world felt now. My feelings were raw, my thoughts were raw and hurtful like knife blades. . . . In the blue had been my place to hide...more details Format:Hardback
A bright, talented junior at Catamount College in the druggy 1970s, Gillian Brauer strives to realise more than a poet's craft in her workshop with the charismatic...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
A bright, talented junior at Catamount College in the druggy 1970s, Gillian Brauer strives to realise more than a poet's craft in her workshop with the charismatic...more details Format:Hardback Pages:144
Gillian Brauer, a college junior in the 1970's, falls in love with the bohemian lifestyle of Professor Andre Harrow and his wife, Dorcas, a sculptor...more details Pages:144
Edited by the critically acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates, The Best American Mystery Stories brings together the genre's finest from the past year. With stories from mystery veterans and newly discovered talents...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
A controversial, painfully intimate depiction of race in America by the esteemed author of 'We were the Mulvaneys', 'Blonde' and 'The Falls'...more details Format:Paperback Pages:448
This book presents a controversial, painfully intimate depiction of race in America by the esteemed author of "We Were the Mulvaneys", "Blonde" and "The Falls". Fifteen years after the mysterious death of Minette Swift - a 19-year-old black girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive liberal arts college - her former roommate...more details Format:Paperback Pages:448
'Nobody has ever caught Marilyn more brilliantly in words than Oates.' John Sutherland, Sunday Times 'Oates has been fearless in taking on a subject that criss-crossed almost every important strand of mid twentieth century history ...Apart from her...more details Format:Paperback Pages:960
A new collection of short stories from the National Book Award shortlisted author of 'Blonde' and 'Middle Age'. In this collection of 21 stories...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
With wicked insight, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates why the females of the species - be they six-year old girls, seemingly devoted wives, or aging mothers - are by nature more deadly than the males. Format:Paperback Pages:288
With wicked insight, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates why the females of the species - be they six-year-old girls, seemingly devoted wives, or ageing mothers - are by nature more deadly than the males. Format:Paperback Pages:288
New novel from the bestselling author of BIG MOUTH AND UGLY GIRL. To the outside world, Franky Pierson is a lucky girl with a charmed life. With a celebrity dad -- TV sports commentator...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
"I Am No One You Know" contains nineteen startling stories that bear witness to the remarkably varied lives of Americans of our time. In "Fire...more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
Joyce Carol Oates is one of the world's most respected living novelists. Her new novel is an intense, deeply moving story of how a young woman finds her place in the world. 'In those days in the early 1960s we were not women yet but girls. This was...more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
Joyce Carol Oates is one of the world's most respected living novelists. Her new novel is an intense, deeply moving story of how a young woman finds her place in the world. 'In those days in the early 1960s we were not women yet but girls. This was...more details Format:Hardback Pages:224
A tender, hilarious novel about contemporary America. With 'Middle Age' Joyce Carol Oates has been acclaimed as one of the most important writers of her time. Salthill-on-Hudson is half an hour outside New York...more details Format:Paperback Pages:560
The story of a woman coming to terms with the violent death of her mother, and uncovering all the hidden secrets stowed away over the years. Format:Paperback Pages:496
From one of America's best loved and most prolific novelists, this is the story of a woman coming to terms with the violent death of her mother...more details Format:Paperback Pages:432
From one of America's best loved and most prolific novelists: the story of a woman coming to terms with the violent death of her mother, and uncovering all the hidden secrets stowed away over the years. Nikki Eaton is a journalist on the local newspaper. She loves wearing short skirts and nail polish. She's having an affair with a married man...more details Format:Hardback Pages:448
In The Man Who Fought Roland LaStarza, a woman's world is upended when she learns the brutal truth about a family friend's death and what her father is capable of. Meanwhile...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
In 'The Man Who Fought Roland LaStarza', a woman's world is upended when she learns the brutal truth about a family friend's death and what her father is capable of. Meanwhile...more details Format:Hardback Pages:240
A dark, wry, captivating tale, inspired by an unsolved American true crime mystery. My Sister, My Love is based on the controversial true-crime mystery of the JonBenet Ramsey murder. When a beautiful...more details Pages:576
The most provocative young adult novel yet from New York Times best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates. Darren Flynn is popular, good-looking...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
It was in November, a Thursday after swim practice. The thing with Mr. Tracy, Darren's English teacher. The thing was how Darren would think of it...more details Format:Hardback
In these twelve riveting tales, master story teller Joyce Carol Oates visits the dark, enigmatic psyche of the teenage years. Intense and unnerving...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
Matt McBride remembers the first victim. He was barely out of junior high when the mutilated body of the popular, pretty teenager was uncovered in the desolate New Jersey Pine Barrens and the horror haunts his memory still. Although Matt had hardly known the girl...more details Format:Paperback Pages:304
The author of I'll Take You There and The Tattooed Girl offers insight into the creative process, sharing the life lessons she has learned throughout her career about language...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
A tale of murder, loss and romance in the mist of Niagara Falls: it is the crowning achievement of Joyce Carol Oates's career to date. A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. He's a newly-wed...more details Format:Paperback Pages:512
A novel of tremendous sweep and pace about the American family in crisis -- but also about America itself in the mid-20th century. This novel is the crowning achievement of Joyce Carol Oates's career to date.A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. He's a newly-wed...more details Format:Hardback
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...more details Format:Hardback Pages:600
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:600
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:600
On New Years Day, 1973, Joyce Carol Oates began keeping a journal that she maintains to this present day. When the journals began, 34-year-old Oates was already a recipient of the National Book Award (1969)...more details Format:Hardback Pages:528
With her unique, masterful balance of dark suspense and surprising tenderness, Joyce Carol Oates conveys how easily and treacherously prejudice can snake its way into human relationships. Format:Paperback Pages:336
Joyce Carol Oates if one of the world's most respected living novelists whose audience has increased significantly with publication of MIDDLE AGE and I'LL TAKE YOU THERE. Her new novel brings us a tale of dark passions...more details Format:Hardback
The Mulvaneys are seemingly blessed by everything that makes life sweet. They live together in the picture-perfect High Point Farm, just outside the community of Mt Ephraim...more details Format:Paperback Pages:464
Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Samuel Clemens ("Mark Twain"), Henry James, Ernest Hemingway--Joyce Carol Oates evokes each of these American literary icons in her newest work of prose fiction...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
Follows the interconnected and secretive lives of parents and their children when they are challenged by circumstances outside their family, in a tale set against a backdrop of Niagara Falls in the mid-twentieth century. Format:CD-Audio