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Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A superb collection of taut and unsettling stories from one of America's literary giants. In the chilling world of Give Me Your Heart, the need for love is obsessive, self-destructive and unpredictable. It takes us to forbidden places, confronts us with gruesome truths, and leads us beyond our control. ...Show more
Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates "Time travel" -- and its hazards--are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the pe ...Show more
Jack of Spades by Joyce Carol Oates
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From one of the most highly regarded writers of her generation, JACK OF SPADES is a psychologically complex thriller that examines the fine line between genius and madness. Andrew J. Rush has achieved the kind of commercial success most authors only dream about: a top agent, publisher in New York, and t ...Show more
Jack of Spades by Joyce Carol Oates
20.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
From one of the most highly regarded writers of her generation, JACK OF SPADES is a psychologically complex thriller that examines the fine line between genius and madness. Andrew J. Rush is a successful mystery writer with twenty-eight novels to his name. He has a loving wife, three grown children, and ...Show more
Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
38.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'A writer of extraordinary strengths' Guardian Set in the mythical small city of Sparta, New York, this searing, vividly rendered exploration of the mysterious conjunction of erotic romance and tragic violence in late 20th-century America. When a young wife and mother named Zoe Kruller is found brutally ...Show more
Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
From the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all.Insightful, disturbing, imaginative, and breathtaking in their lyrical precision, the sto ...Show more
Mudwoman by Joyce Carol Oates
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A haunting new novel from Joyce Carol Oates. Mudgirl is a child abandoned by her mother in the silty flats of the Black Snake River. Cast aside, Mudgirl survives by an accident of fate - or destiny. Only when she is adopted by a Quaker family does she begin to suppress those painful memories. Meredith ' ...Show more
My Life As a Rat by Joyce Carol Oates
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A brilliant and thought-provoking novel about family, loyalty and betrayal Once I'd been Daddy's favourite. Before something terrible happened. Violet Rue is the baby of the seven Kerrigan children and adores her big brothers. What's more, she knows that a family protects its own. To go outside the fa ...Show more
My Life As a Rat by Joyce Carol Oates
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A brilliant and thought-provoking novel about family, loyalty and betrayal. Once I'd been Daddy's favourite. Before something terrible happened.Violet Rue is the baby of the seven Kerrigan children and adores her big brothers. What's more, she knows that a family protects its own. To go outside the fam ...Show more
Night Sleep Death the Stars by Joyce Carol Oates
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society Night Sleep Death The Stars is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in st ...Show more
Sacrifice by Joyce Carol Oates
33.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates blends sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power in an incendiary novel that explores the persistence of stereotypes, the nature of revenge, and how the complexities of truth are lost in our hunger for sensationalism. Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates return ...Show more
Sourland by Joyce Carol Oates
27.00 NZD
Category: General 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