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Sourland by Joyce Carol Oates
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
Joyce Carol Oates is not only one of our most important novelists and literary critics, she is also an unparalleled master of the short story. In "Sourland" she maps the surprising contours of ordinary life, exploring how the power of violence, loss, and grief shape both the psyche and the soul. From a ...Show more
The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
This eerie tale of psychological horror sees the real inhabitants of turn-of-the-century Princeton fall under the influence of a supernatural power. New Jersey, 1905: soon-to-be commander-in-chief Woodrow Wilson is president of Princeton University. On a nearby farm, Socialist author Upton Sinclair, enj ...Show more
The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
An eerie, unforgettable story of power, loss, and family curses in early 20th-century Princeton. Princeton, New Jersey at the turn of the 20th century: soon-to-be commander-in-chief Woodrow Wilson is president of Princeton University. On a neighbouring farm, muck-raking novelist Upton Sinclair, enjoying ...Show more
The Corn Maiden: And Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates
$20.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller
Twice nominated for the Nobel Prize, Joyce Carol Oates presents an unbearably taut and terrifying tale combining the fury of folklore and adolescent insecurity. Marissa is an innocent girl, with hair the colour of corn-silk. She does not hold others in strange thrall, as some young women do, she obeys h ...Show more
The Evil Eye by Joyce Carol Oates
$23.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most prominent writers of her generation. In EVIL EYE, Oates offers four dark and compelling tales of love gone horribly wrong. The young fourth wife of a prominent intellectual thinks herself happy until the first wife comes to stay...A shy teenager meets a dazzling kind ...Show more
The Evil Eye by Joyce Carol Oates
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most prominent writers of her generation. In EVIL EYE, Oates offers four dark and compelling tales of love gone horribly wrong. The young fourth wife of a prominent intellectual thinks herself happy until the first wife comes to stay...A shy teenager meets a dazzling kind ...Show more
The Faith of a Writer : Life, Craft, Art by Joyce Carol Oates
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Joyce Carol Oates is an artist ideally suited to answer essential questions about what makes a story striking, a novel come alive, a writer an artist as well as a craftsman. In The Faith of a Writer she provides valuable lessons on how language, ideas, and experience are assembled to create art. Discuss ...Show more
The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A tale of murder, loss and romance in the mist of Niagara Falls; it is the crowning achievement of Joyce Carol Oates's stellar career to date.A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. He's a newly-wed, and his bride has been left behind in the honeymoon suite the morning after their ...Show more
The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From the author of 'Blonde', 'The Falls' and 'We Were the Mulvaneys', this new novel takes in the themes of race, immigration, family and social mobility, and is Joyce Carol Oates at her storytelling best. 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' tells the tale of Rebecca Schwart, born in the late 1930s to an immig ...Show more
The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From the author ofBlondeThe Falls and We Were the Mulvaneys, this new novel takes in the themes of race, immigration, family and social mobility, and is Joyce Carol Oates at her storytelling best.The Gravedigger's Daughter tells the tale of Rebecca Schwart, born in the late 1930s to an immigrant family ...Show more
The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age by Joyce Carol Oates
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
A momentous memoir of childhood and adolescence from one of our finest and most beloved writers, as we've never seen her before. In The Lost Landscape, Joyce Carol Oates vividly recreates the early years of her life in western New York state, powerfully evoking the romance of childhood and the way it co ...Show more
The Man Without a Shadow by Joyce Carol Oates
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
From bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a taut and fascinating novel examining 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 last seventy s ...Show more