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Rape : A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Rape: A Love Story begins with what is almost unspeakable. It tells of the brutality and cowardice that overtakes the city of Niagara Falls in the aftermath of an attack on a woman and her young daughter. A diamond-hard dissection of modern mores, it is also the tale of Teena and Bethie's silent champio ...Show more
Rape: A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Teena Maguire and daughter Bethie walk home from an evening party, what should be a soothing stroll turns into a nightmare. This short novel packs a punch. The Observer describes it as ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂabove all, an attack on misogyny... as powerful as anything she has produced... a remarkab ...Show more
Soul at the White Heat: Inspiration, Obsession, and the Writing Life by Joyce Carol Oates
$27.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, now in paperback."Why do we write?"With this question, Joyce Carol Oates begins an imaginative exploration of the writing life ...Show more
Sourland by Joyce Carol Oates
$24.99 AUD
Category: 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 Corn Maiden: And Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
One day an 11-year-old girl disappears. She was playing with friends from school. The crop is strengthened by her blood...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 her parents, she does not stay late afte ...Show more
The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Horror by Joyce Carol Oates
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Six terrifying tales to chill the blood from the unique imagination of Joyce Carol Oates. A young boy plays with dolls instead of action figures. But as he grows older, his passion takes on a darker edge... A white man shoots dead a black youth creating a media frenzy. But could it have been self-defens ...Show more
The Faith of a Writer : Life, Craft, Art by Joyce Carol Oates
$22.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
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
$22.95 AUD
Category: 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
$32.99 AUD
Category: 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
$24.99 AUD
Category: 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 by Joyce Carol Oates
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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, powerfully evoking the romance of childhood and the way it colours everything that come ...Show more
The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age by Joyce Carol Oates
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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