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2018.
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In her latest ?tales of suspense? collection, Oates dramatizes mysteries of the mind. An expert in crafting escalating inner monologues as her narrators struggle against malevolent circumstances and mental aberrations, Oates continues her inquiry into sexual terrors in six substantial, insightful, and creepy stories. Overweight, boozy New England faculty wife Elinor decides to take revenge against the latest beautiful long-legged girl entrancing her...
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A volume of six stories and novellas includes the title story, in which the disappearance of a sweet blonde-haired child is linked to her mother's indiscretions, a too-obvious schoolteacher and an older student with a fascination for a Native American legend.
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Presents nine tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Starting with the title novella--in which a romantic-minded young art historian is led to (re)discover a terrifying trauma after inheriting property in faraway Cardiff, Maine - through to "The Surviving Child" - which finds the young new wife of a famous poet's widow haunted by the dead poet's voice dancing in the wind, an inexplicably befouled well, and a compulsive draw to the same garage that already took two lives--Cardiff, by the Sea is ceaselessly...
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Joyce Carol Oates explores with bloodcurdling insight the ties that bind—or worse.
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, a businessman desperate to find his missing two-year-old grandson in "Suicide Watch" must determine whether the horrifying tale his junkie son tells him about the boy's whereabouts
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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As a child, Abby had the same recurring nightmare night after night, in which she wandered through a field ridden with human skulls and bones. Now an adult, Abby thinks she?s outgrown her demons, until, the evening before her wedding, the terrible dream returns and forces her to confront the dark secrets from her past she has kept from her new husband, Willem. The following day?less than 24 hours after exchanging vows?Abby steps out into traffic....
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In this work the author offers a collection of 11 previously uncollected stories, including a title piece that tracks the friendship between Elizabeth Short, famously known as the Black Dahlia, the victim of a markedly brutal murder in 1940s Los Angeles that remains unsolved, and her roommate, Norma Jeane Baker who became Marilyn Monroe.
12) Babysitter
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2022.
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English
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The lives of three individuals, including the wife of a prominent businessman who is having an affair, a street hustler seeking to right an injustice and a serial killer called Babysitter, intersect in a Detroit suburb in the 1970s.
14) Daddy Love
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Part-time preacher Chester Cash calls himself Daddy Love. He has abducted, tortured, and abused several young boys. Kidnapping Robbie from his mother at a mall, he gradually tries to brainwash him into believing that they are father and son. Dinah, the boy's mother, who was savagely injured during the abduction, clings to hope that her son is alive.
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"Andrew J. Rush has achieved the kind of critical and commercial success most authors only dream about: he has a top agent and publisher in New York, and his twenty-eight mystery novels have sold millions of copies around the world. He also has a loving wife and three grown children and is a well-known philanthropist in his small New Jersey town. But Rush is hiding a dark secret. Under the pseudonym "Jack of Spades, " he pens another string of novels--...
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