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Gillian Brauner, brillante studentessa nei ruggenti anni Settanta, si innamora perdutamente di Andre Harrow, il carismatico e anticonformista professore del corso di poesia al college. Ma e attratta anche da Dorcas, la moglie di Andre, scultrice spregiudicata e intrigante. Ipnotizzata dalle loro esuberanti personalita, si lascia attrarre sempre piu dal loro mondo rarefatto, finendo con l''arrendersi alle loro raffinatezze gastronomiche, alle loro pastiglie fiabesche, alle loro carezze. Bestie e una storia di ossessioni e desideri in cui il romanzo gotico viene portato alla sua espressione piu intensa.

En 1936, los Schwarts, una familia de inmigrantes, desesperada por escapar a la Alemania nazi, se instala en una pequeña ciudad en el interior de Nueva York, donde el padre, un profesor de instituto, es rebajado al unico trabajo al que tiene acceso: sepulturero y vigilante de cementerio. Muy pronto los prejuicios de la ciudad y la propia fragilidad emocional de la familia tienen como consecuencia una tragedia indescriptible: la joven Rebeca Schwart, la hija del sepulturero, perdida y en un intento de dejar el pasado tras ella, se va a mover por toda America a traves de una serie de fracasos matrimoniales, en busqueda de algun lugar y alguien a quien poder pertenecer.Una gran novela americana: la historia de un personaje, Rebecca, que se reinvento a si misma.

The words gothic and macabre rather than mystery and suspense might better describe the 10 beautifully told stories in this superb collection from the prolific Oates. Las palabras 'gótico' y 'macabro' pueden describir mejor que 'misterio' y 'suspense' estas diez historias delicadamente elaboradas en esta soberbia colección de la prolífica Oates.

Seize nouvelles brutales et décapantes, parfois insoutenables. Certes, la prose de Joyce Carol Oates n'a jamais été conseillée en qualité de berceuse mais, en ce qui concerne ce recueil, les enfants auront interet a aller se coucher encore plus tot car, tres vite, Oates se montre sans pitie pour eux. Bien entendu, les veritables aficionados en redemanderont. La premiere tout comme la derniere nouvelle sont peut-etre a eviter pour les ames sensibles... s'il en existe encore. Oates a superbement disseque le chagrin et le choc provoques par la mort de son premier mari Ray Smith en 2008, et il n'est donc pas surprenant que la perte et le deuil soient les themes dominants de ce recueil rageur, dur et visceralement derangeant, ecrit au lendemain du malheur. On y cherchera en vain la resignation de la veuve : Oates semble determinee a nous convaincre que la femme en deuil est une sorte de coupable, une victime qui dans un sens merite tout ce qui lui arrive (et ce n'est pas toujours tendre). Mais meme si la demonstration peche par un rien d'exces, quel bonheur de lecture que ces pages qui font tomber les idoles et les cliches avec une sante, une energie - et une plume - d'une jeunesse

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, ice-skating child prodigy is found brutally murdered, suspicion immediately mounts against friends, neighbours -- and even the young girl''s own family. Told from the point of view of the dead girl''s brother, and in the inimitable style and gripping voice that has long been Oates''s trademark, ''My Sister, My Love'' explores the darkest corners of the human psyche, and takes the reader into a twisted world that only the most daring and imaginative of novelists can capture.

Años cincuenta, alrededores de Nueva York… Cinco chicas de instituto forman una banda para hacerse fuertes y protegerse de una sociedad y un mundo hostiles… Maddy, narradora de la historia; Goldie, un temperamento salvaje disimulado por un cuerpo escultural; Lana, con su pelo a lo Marilyn; Rita, cuya humillación provoca el primer ajuste de cuentas de la banda; y sobre todo, Legs Sadovsky, belleza gélida, corazón rocoso, una joven llena de ira, de odio y de fuerza, una de las heroínas más vitales de la ficción moderna… Cinco adolescentes en una historia de violencia, abuso sexual, explotación y venganza…Una obra lírica y brutal al mismo tiempo, un retrato enérgico y emocionante del corazón oscuro de la sociedad norteamericana.

America's preeminent fiction writer' New YorkerMichaela and her husband have moved to the starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape of New Mexico, to take residency at a distinguished academic institute. But then Gerard is stricken with a mysterious illness, initially misdiagnosed, and soon their life begins to resemble a nightmare. At thirty-seven, Michaela faces the terrifying prospect of widowhood - and the loss of Gerard, whose identity has greatly shaped her own.In vividly depicted scenes of escalating suspense, Michaela cares desperately for Gerard in his final days, and then careens through the chaos of the days after he is gone.Her love for her husband, however fierce and selfless, has not been enough to save him and his death is beyond her comprehension. A love that refuses to be surrendered at death - is this the blessing of a unique married love, or a curse that must be exorcized?Breathe is an exploration of haunting, a horror story about the raw madness of grief, and an intense, heart-wrenching love story that grapples with the philosophical questions most fundamental to our existence.

The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society 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. Stark and penetrating, Joyce Carol Oates's latest novel is a vivid exploration of race, psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing, as well as an intimate family novel in the tradition of the author's bestselling We Were the Mulvaneys.

A woman, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, seated in front of the window in an apartment she cannot afford. In this exquisitely tense narrative reimagining of Edward Hopper's Eleven A.M., 1926, the reader enters the minds of both the woman and her m

Violet Rue is the baby of the seven Kerrigan children and adores her big brothers. What's more, she knows that a family protects its own. To go outside the family - to betray the family - is unforgiveable. So when she overhears a conversation not meant for her ears and discovers that her brothers have committed a heinous crime, she is torn between her loyalty to her family and her sense of justice. The decision she takes will change her life for ever.