Name: The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (Harvest Book) (in English)
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Author: Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN: 9780156030274

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Joyce Carol Oates

Publisher

Ecco Press

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.5 x 1.9 cm

Weight

0.29 kg.

ISBN

0156030276

ISBN13

9780156030274

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (Harvest Book) (in English)"

A young wife is home alone when the phone rings in "So Help Me God." Is the strange voice flirting with her from the other end of the line her jealous husband laying a trap, or a stranger who knows entirely too much about her? In "Madison at Guignol" an unhappy fashionista discovers a secret door inside her favorite clothing store and insists the staff let her enter. But even her fevered imagination cannot anticipate the horror they have been hiding from her. In these and other gripping and disturbing tales, women are confronted by the evil around them and surprised by the evil they find within themselves. With wicked insight, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates why the females of the species--be they six-year-old girls, seemingly devoted wives, or aging mothers--are by nature more deadly than the males.

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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