Name: Dis mem ber and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense (in English)
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Author: Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN: 9780802128119

portada Dis mem ber and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Joyce Carol Oates

Publisher

Mysterious Press

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 13.7 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN13

9780802128119

Synopsis "Dis mem ber and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense (in English)"

In the seven feverishly unsettling works that compose DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense, exquisite prose stylist Joyce Carol Oates focuses on the inner lives of vulnerable girls and women--some victimized, others provoked by deep emotional unrest--to commit violence against others. This is an arresting fiction collection from "one of the great writers of our time" (John Gardner). In the title story, a precocious eleven-year-old is in thrall to an older male relative--the mysterious, attractive black sheep of the family--and climbs into his sky-blue Chevy to be driven to an uncertain, and unforgettable, fate. In the Bram Stoker Award-winning short story, "The Crawl Space," a widow obsessively returns to the house she once shared with her husband, until an invitation from the new owners to come inside takes a turn for the menacing. In "The Drowned Girl," a university transfer student becomes increasingly obsessed with the drowning/murder of another female student as her own sense of self begins to deteriorate. And in the final story, "Welcome to Friendly Skies," a trusting group of bird-watchers is borne to a remote part of the globe--and to a harrowing fate. At the heart of this meticulously crafted, deeply disquieting collection are girls and women confronting the danger around them, and the danger hidden inside their turbulent selves.

Joyce Carol Oates

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(Lockport, Nueva York, 1938) Es una de las grandes figuras de la literatura contemporánea estadounidense. Autora de más de medio centenar de novelas, más de cuatrocientos relatos breves, más de una docena de libros de no ficción, once libros de poesía y nueve obras de teatro en sus más de cinco décadas de trabajo. Ha sido galardonada con numerosos premios, como el National Book Award, el PEN/Malamud Award, el Prix Fémina Étranger y, en España, con el Premio BBK Ja! Bilbao por el «modernísimo humor negro de su obra» y el Premio Pepe Carvalho 2021. En 2010 recibió la National Humanities Medal, el más alto galardón civil del gobierno estadounidense en el campo de las humanidades y, en 2012, el Premio Stone de la Oregon State University por su carrera literaria.

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