Oates, Joyce Carol
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2022
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Summary: Presents nine tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940smagazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2021
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Summary: "From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand-new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery and suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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Summary: "Joyce Carol Oates is renowned for her rare ability to "illuminate the mind's most disturbing corners" (Seattle Times). That genius is on full display in her new collection of seven feverishly unsettling works, DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense. In the title story, a precocious eleven-year-old named Jill is in thrall to an older male relative, the mysterious, attractive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Oates 2017Summary: A collection of the year's best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023