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A provocative, unprecedented anthology featuring original short stories on what it means to be an American from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen: “This chorus of brilliant voices articulating the shape and...

Michaela and her husband have moved to the starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape of New Mexico, to take up an academic residency. But when Gerard is struck by a fatal illness, their life begins to resemble a nightmare. At thirty-seven, Michaela must first face the terrifying prospect of widowhood, then the chaos of the days when Gerard is gone.

Listen to mystery stories by today's top writers and the masters who inspired them. The idea for this collection came to Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Lawrence Block when he was asked, "What is your favorite mystery story?" Block compiled this unique collection by posing the same question to some of today's favorite writers of the genre, including Stephen King, Tony Hillerman, and John Lutz.

From bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a taut and fascinating novel that examines the mysteries of human memory and personality In 1965, a young research scientist named Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes, the subject of her study, a handsome amnesiac who cannot remember anything beyond the...

New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates’s strongest and most unsparing novel yet—an always engrossing, often shocking evocation of female rage, gallantry, and grit. The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New York, where five high school girls join a...

Marilyn Monroe era puro fuego, sexualidad a flor de piel, romances turbulentos, pero también era una mujer frágil, asustada y repleta de inseguridades que buscaba en otros—en el Ex Deportista, en el Dramaturgo o en el Presidente—ese amor que ella misma se negaba. Una artista superdotada cargada de conflictos, temores y pasiones desatadas; una niña que no dejó de huir hacia delante y que llegó a burlar a la propia muerte para convertirse en leyenda. Tras una exhaustiva documentación, Joyce Carol Oates redibuja la vida interior de Norma Jeane Baker.

Two hitmen in a depressed rust belt town struggle with a job gone wrong. A girl witnesses a horrifying accident and carries it with her for the rest of her life. Medical students bring a severed foot to a college party. Five-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Joyce Carol Oates has made a career of exploring the forbidden corners of human experience, and the stories collected here, spanning her first three decades as a writer, are among her most unsettling and unforgettable works to date.

Il vecchio John Earle “Whitey” McClaren, è l'ex sindaco repubblicano di Hammond, editore, pubblicitario e patriarca di una famiglia di cinque figli. Mentre cerca di fermare il pestaggio di un sospetto da parte della polizia viene a sua volta violentemente picchiato, colpito con il taser e, di conseguenza, entra in coma. Muore in ospedale poco dopo. La scomparsa del capofamiglia porta i suoi figli e la moglie, Jessalyn, a intraprendere un percorso di inattese e imprevedibili trasformazioni.

Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers, the award-winning, best-selling author of Blonde A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically...

Los Mulvaney son un ejemplo de familia feliz. El padre es un hombre apuesto, trabajador y sensato; la madre, una mujer encantadora y dicharachera, y los hijos, Mike, Patrick, Marianne y Judd, el broche de oro a un matrimonio idílico. Viven en High Point Farm, una granja de ensueño que será su infierno a partir del día de San Valentín de 1976, cuando un oscuro suceso cambia por completo la vida de Marianne, y los Mulvaney inician su declive. El narrador de la historia es Judd, periodista y el menor de los hijos, quien revela la verdad de su familia y de un país entero.

En 1936, los Schwart, una familia de inmigrantes desesperada por escapar de la Alemania nazi, se instala en una pequeña ciudad de Estados Unidos. El padre, un profesor de instituto, es rebajado al único trabajo al que tiene acceso: sepulturero y vigilante de cementerio.

Perturbadora novela, ganadora del Premio Bram Stoker a mejor novela de terror en 1995, en la que nos adentramos en la psique de un asesino en serie obsesionado con crear su propio zombi. Un viaje tan lisérgico como aterrador al corazón de alguien capaz de matar para satisfacer sus fantasías.

Unter dem Pseudonym "Pik-Bube" verfasst der renommierte Schriftsteller Andrew Rush düster-verstörende Thriller. So leicht ihm das Schreiben dieser rauschhaften Gewaltfantasien weit nach Mitternacht von der Hand geht, so verschwommen ist später seine Erinnerung an den Inhalt. Als ein Plagiatsvorwurf Rushs guten Ruf - und damit seine Existenz und seine Familie - bedroht, ist plötzlich "Pik-Bube" mit hinterhältigen Ratschlägen zur Stelle. Und fast gegen seinen Willen beginnt Rush ihnen zu folgen.

"Sort vand" er den dramatiske historie om Kelly Kehler og hendes liv, der passerer revy, imens hun venter på den stille druknedød fastklemt i en bil, der er kørt i vandet. Romanen kredser om, hvordan Kelly Kehler er havnet i den frygtelige situation, om hendes noget naive forhold til mænd, der ikke vil hende det godt, og om hendes fortid som en selvmordstruet ung kvinde, som ironisk nok valgte livet. Erindringerne blandes med stadig flere hallucinationer, efterhånden som det sorte vand stiger i bilen, og ilten forsvinder.

"Firefox" er de fiktive erindringer fortalt af Madeleine, eller Maddy, som hun kaldes, der i sine unge dage var med i pigebanden Firefox. Gruppens leder er den karismatiske og idealistiske Margaret, der er god til at sætte gang i gaden. Nogle gange lidt for god. Pigerne bor sammen i et hus, men har svært ved at skaffe penge til dagen og vejen. Margaret kommer imidlertid på en lusket plan, hvor de skal bortføre en lokal rigmand. Men bortførelsen går ikke som planlagt, og pludselig står gruppen uden en leder.

A new collection of critical and personal essays on the writing life, from National Book Award—winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates. “Why do we write?” With this question, Joyce Carol Oates, in this new collection of seminal essays and criticism, begins an...

Revenge is one of the great themes in literature, from Shakespeare to Poe. This collection contains 18 original stories commissioned for this volume plus a reprint of a classic Ruth Rendell mystery.

The most civilized and 'decent' among us find that we are complicit with the most brutal murderers. We enter into literally unspeakable alliances - of which we dare not speak except through the obliquities and indirections of fiction, poetry, and visual art of the sort gathered here in New Jersey Noir.

This anthology, with stories set in different prisons across the US, presents an absolutely new perspective on prison literature. Featuring brand-new stories by: Christopher M. Stephen, Sin Soracco, Scott Gutches, Eric Boyd, Ali F. Sareini, Stephen Geez, B.M. Dolarman, Zeke Caligiuri, Marco Verdoni, Kenneth R. Brydon, Linda Michelle Marquardt, Andre White, Timothy Pauley, Bryan K. Palmer, and William Van Poyck.

Based on National Book Award-winner Joyce Carol Oates' novella about the Chappaquiddick scandal, this tragic and beautiful new opera enthralls as a handsome Senator uses power to enchant, seduce, and carelessly destroy.