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Dans une petite ville ouvrière de l'Etat de New York, dans les années 1950, cinq lycéennes forment une bande pour se venger des humiliations qu'elles ont subies : le gang des Foxfire. Il y a Maddy Mo

A young girl's disappearance rocks a community and a family, in this stirring examination of grief, faith, justice and the atrocities of war, from literary legend Joyce Carol Oates. Zeno Mayfield's daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks. But when the community of Carthage joins a father's frantic search for the girl, they discover instead the unlikeliest of suspects - a decorated Iraq War veteran with close ties to the Mayfield family. As grisly evidence mounts against the troubled war hero, the family must wrestle with the possibility of having lost a daughter forever. 'Carthage' plunges us deep into the psyche of a wounded young Corporal, haunted by unspeakable acts of wartime aggression, while unraveling the story of a disaffected young girl whose exile from her family may have come long before her disappearance. Dark and riveting, 'Carthage' is a powerful addition to the Joyce Carol Oates canon, one that explores the human capacity for violence, love and forgiveness, and asks if it's ever truly possible to come home again.

El inconsciente puede traicionarnos, pero también salvarnos. Abby, la protagonista de Persecución, experimenta una regresión traumática luego de casarse y sufre un violento accidente que la deja en coma. Con este episodio inicial Joyce Carol Oates se adentra en los salvajes vericuetos de la mente de su protagonista y desanuda la trama de un pasado cargado de obsesion, abuso y muerte, para revelar la naturaleza engañosa de las apariencias. Con gran maestria Oates demuele las convenciones que sujetan los vinculos familiares y exhibe sin ambages las atrocidades cotidianas que se perpetran en nombre del amor.Novela de suspenso, thriller psicologico, historia de una pasion desenfrenada, Persecucion es ante todo la obra de una autora inigualable.

Un quartier populaire d'une petite ville de l'Etat de New York dans les années 1950. Cinq lycéennes, pour survivre et se venger des humiliations qu'elles ont subies, concluent un pacte, à la vie, à la mort : elles seront le gang Foxfire. La haine, et surtout celle des hommes, va les entraîner dans une impitoyable équipée sauvage.

"In questa raccolta Joyce Carol Oates esplora il lato misterioso della psiche di uomini e donne apparentemente normali, addentrandosi nel labirinto delle loro ossessioni con lucidita impietosa e profonda umanita. L''ossessione di un ragazzo per le pistole, la terribile vendetta di una ragazza brutta, il fanatismo omicida di una setta religiosa, una passione amorosa che varca i confini della sanita mentale: un intero universo, denso di misteri e di pericoli, che con un sottile brivido di angoscia accompagna il lettore ben oltre la parola fine. "

"La sedicenne Katya Spivar e il sessantottenne Marcus Kidder si trovano contemporaneamente in una localita balneare sulla costa del New Jersey. Katya viene da una famiglia povera e corrotta e si trova li come baby sitter. Marcus e un artista (scrittore, musicista, pittore) di New York, ricchissimo. Tra i due inizia una relazione. Inizialmente lui le chiede di posare seminuda e lei accetta per soldi; poi, pero, tra i due si crea una reale intimita, sembra amore ma i soldi e lo status di Marcus fanno troppa gola a Katya. I piani vengono rovinati da Roy, un avanzo di galera, amico della madre di Katya, che vuole approfittare della relazione della ragazza per rapinare Marcus. Katya in un primo tempo si presta al gioco, ma poi abbandona il complice e torna da Marcus, facendosi perdonare e arrivando al matrimonio. Ad attendere i due sposi pero c''e la zampata di una maestra della suspence come Joyce Carol Oates. "

"Una mattina del febbraio 2008, Joyce Carol Oates accompagna suo marito, Raymond Smith, al pronto soccorso del Princeton Medicai Center dove all''uomo viene diagnosticata una polmonite. I due si aspettano una rapida dimissione, ma in meno di una settimana Raymond si spegnera, indebolito da un''infezione contratta in ospedale, e Joyce dovra affrontare la dura realta della solitudine. ""Storia di una vedova"" racconta la lotta di una donna per riconquistare la vita senza il compagno che l''ha sostenuta per quasi cinquant''anni. Come mai prima d''ora, Joyce Carol Oates condivide con i lettori la debolezza della negazione e l''angoscia della perdita, il disorientamento di chi sopravvive e il sollievo dell''amicizia. "

"La scomparsa di un''amica artista fa emergere nel protagonista, Watt Mc Bride, agente immobiliare di successo, il ricordo di un simile avvenimento accaduto ai tempi dell''adolescenza e mette in luce gli aspetti nascosti della sua personalita: ha una passione per la fotografia, per la quale predilige soggetti inquietanti e orrorifici, immortalati con lo pseudonimo di Nighthawk. L''inseguimento del serial killer si rivela una caccia all''uomo e al contempo il confronto a distanza con il proprio doppio: anche l''assassino, come Mc Bride, vive una vita parallela, operaio di professione, artista dilettante a tempo perso, e firma le sue opere con lo pseudonimo Name Unknown. L''indagine diventa quindi per il protagonista una vera ossessione, mentre la polizia comincia a perseguitarlo pensandolo colpevole: il nodo si stringe attorno al killer, e lo scontro finale segnera una sorprendente resa dei conti. "

A young girl's disappearance rocks a community and a family, in this stirring examination of grief, faith, justice and the atrocities of war, from literary legend Joyce Carol Oates.

Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most prominent writers of her generation. In EVIL EYE, Oates offers four dark and compelling tales of love gone horribly wrong. The young fourth wife of a prominent intellectual thinks herself happy until the first wife comes to stay...A shy teenager meets a dazzling kindred spirit. But the first sparks of young love soon take on a darker shade...A spoiled frat boy decides to murder his parents, only to be floored by the power of his mother's love...A fragile woman reveals deeply buried secrets to her curious lover with devastating consequences...All of these stories are about love, just not as we like to think of it.

Daddy Love, aka Reverend Chester Cash, has for years abducted, tortured, and raped young boys. His latest victim is Robbie, now renamed 'Gideon', and brainwashed into believing that he is Daddy Love's real son. Any time the boy resists or rebels he is met with punishment beyond his wildest nightmares. As Robbie grows older he begins to realize that the longer he is locked in the shackles of this demon, the greater chance he'll end up like Daddy Love's other 'sons' who were never heard from again. Somewhere within this tortured boy lies a spark of rebellion...and soon he will see just what lengths he must go to in order to have any chance at survival.

Originaire d’une petite ville miteuse, Katya Spivak passe l’été à faire du baby-sitting dans le quartier huppé de Bayhead Harbour, New Jersey. Elle oscille entre la naïveté de ses seize ans et le cyn

New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates returns with an incendiary novel that illuminates the tragic impact of sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power on innocent lives and probes the persistence of stereotypes, the nature of revenge, the complexities of truth, and our insatiable hunger for sensationalism.When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanizes her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades. In this magisterial work of fiction, Joyce Carol Oates explores the uneasy fault lines in a racially troubled society. In such a tense, charged atmosphere, Oates reveals that there must always be a sacrificeof innocence, truth, trust, and, ultimately, of lives. Unfolding in a succession of multiracial voices, in a community transfixed by this alleged crime and the spectacle unfolding around it, this profound novel exposes whatand whothe sacrifice actually is, and what consequences these kind of events hold for us all.Working at the height of her powers, Oates offers a sympathetic portrait of the young girl and her mother, and challenges our expectations and beliefs about our society, our biases, and ourselves. As the chorus of its voicesfrom the police to the media to the victim and her familyreaches a crescendo, The Sacrifice offers a shocking new understanding of power and oppression, innocence and guilt, truth and sensationalism, justice and retribution.A chilling exploration of complex social, political, and moral themesthe enduring trauma of the past, modern racial and class tensions, the power of secrets, and the primal decisions we all make to protect those we loveThe Sacrifice is a major work of fiction from one of our most revered literary masters.

Un soir de juillet à Carthage, Cressida Mayfield disparaît. Ses parents et sa sœur Juliet refusent d’imaginer le pire. Des cheveux et des traces de sang sont retrouvés dans la jeep de Brett, caporal

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 darker edge...A white man shoots dead a black youth creating a media frenzy. But could it have been self-defense as he claims?A nervous woman tries to escape her husband. He says he loves her, but she''s convinced he wants to kill her...These quietly lethal stories reveal the horrors that dwell within us all.

En estas diez magníficas historias nos encontramos con niños que escapan al control de sus padres; cónyuges que se despiertan un día y descubren que apenas se conocen; pasados obsesivos que interfieren en futuros inciertos; y tambien con la certeza de que aquellos que tenemos mas cerca pueden ser quienes nos hagan mas daño. Historias sobrecogedoras capaces de despertar nuestras pasiones mas profundas.

Two families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences. Gus Voorhees is a pioneer in the advancement of women's reproductive rights and a controversial abortion provider in the American Midwest. One morning as he arrives at his clinic, he is ambushed by a hardline Christian, Luther Dunphy, and shot dead. The killing leaves in its wake two fatherless families: the Voorheeses, who are affluent, highly educated, secular and pro-choice, and the Dunphys, their opposite on all counts. When the daughters of the two families, Naomi Voorhees and Dawn Dunphy, glimpse each other at the trial of Luther Dunphy, their initial response is mutual hatred. But their lives are tangled together forever by what has happened, and throughout the years to come and the events that follow, neither can quite forget the other. A heart-rending reckoning with some of the most incendiary issues that divide us in our troubled times - religious extremism; abortion; gun violence; capital punishment - this is a novel Joyce Carol Oates was born to write. To read it is to encounter the full spectrum of humanity - its ugliness, misery, beauty and hope.