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48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister by Joyce Carol Oates
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A suspenseful story about the complex relationship between two sisters. When a beautiful woman mysteriously vanishes, her sister must tally up the clues to discover her fate. Marguerite has disappeared from her small town in Upstate New York. But was foul play involved? Did she merely get away for fun ...Show more
A Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Gus Vorhees is an eminent doctor at the Muskegee Falls Women's Center, Ohio. One morning as he arrives at the clinic, he is ambushed by a hardline Christian, Luther Dunphy, and shot dead. This action leaves in its wake two fatherless families: the Vorhees, who are affluent, highly educated, secular and ...Show more
A Book of American Martyrs by Joyce Carol Oates
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Two families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences. Gus Voorhees is 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 ...Show more
A Darker Shade: New Stories of Body Horror from Women Writers by Joyce Carol Oates
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors - including Margaret Atwood, Raven Leilani, and Cassandra Khaw - to explore, subvert, and reinvent one of the most vital subgenres of horror 'Will burrow under your skin and live forever in your darkest dreams' Bust Joyce Carol Oates assembles a ...Show more
A Widow's Story: A Memoir by Joyce Carol Oates
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
"My husband died, my life collapsed." On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton Medical Center where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. Both Joyce and Ray expected him to be released in a day or two. But in less than a ...Show more
American Melancholy: Poems by Joyce Carol Oates
$33.07 AUD
Category: Poetry
A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five yearsJoyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute social consciousness, one of the most insistent and inspired witnesses of a shared American history.Oates ...Show more
Babysitter by Joyce Carol Oates
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From one of America’s most renowned storytellers comes a novel about love and deceit, and lust and redemption, against a background of child abductions in the affluent suburbs of Detroit. In the waning days of the turbulent 1970s, in the wake of unsolved killings that have shocked Detroit, the lives of ...Show more
Beautiful Days - Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A new collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories by American master Joyce Carol Oates, including the 2017 Pushcart Prize-winning "Undocumented Alien." The diverse stories of Beautiful Days, Joyce Carol Oates explore the most secret, intimate, and unacknowledged interior lives of characters not unlike o ...Show more
Black Dahlia & White Rose: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates (Princeton University)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
Unafraid to venture into no-man's-lands both real and surreal, Oates takes readers deep into dangerous territory in eleven stories that showcase the keen rewards of her relentless brio and invention. Whether charting the inner lives of two beautiful and mysteriously doomed women in 1940s Los Angeles--El ...Show more
Black Girl / White Girl : A novel by Joyce Carol Oates
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 c ...Show more
Black Girl White Girl by Joyce Carol Oates
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
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 -- he ...Show more
Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Contemporary Fiction, Plume Ser.
The Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling novel We Were the Mulvaneys "Taut, powerfully imagined and beautifully written, Black Water ranks with the best of Joyce Carol Oates's already long list of distinguished achievements. It can be read in a single afterno ...Show more