Give Me Your Heart

Author:   Professor of Humanities Joyce Carol Oates (Princeton University)
Publisher:   Ecco Press
ISBN:  

9780547385419


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   17 January 2012
Format:   Paperback
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"The need for love--obsessive, self-destructive, unpredictable--takes us to forbidden places, as in the chilling world of Give Me Your Heart, a new collection of stories by the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates. In the suspenseful ""Strip Poker,"" a reckless adolescent girl must find a way of turning the tables on a gathering of increasingly threatening young men--Can she ""outplay"" them? In the award-winning ""Smother!"" a young woman's nightmare memory of childhood brings trouble on her professor-mother--Which of them will ""win""? In ""Split/Brain"" a woman who has blundered into a lethal situation confronts the possibility of saving herself--Will she take it? In ""The First Husband,"" a jealous man discovers that his wife seems to have lied about her first marriage, and exacts a cruel revenge, years after the fact. In these and other powerful tales, children veer beyond their parents' control, wives and husbands wake up to find that they hardly know each other, haunted pasts intrude upon uncertain futures, and those who bring us the most harm may be the nearest at hand. In ten razor-sharp stories, National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates shows that the most deadly mysteries often begin at home."

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Author:   Professor of Humanities Joyce Carol Oates (Princeton University)
Publisher:   Ecco Press
Imprint:   Ecco Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.70cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 20.10cm
Weight:   0.249kg
ISBN:  

9780547385419


ISBN 10:   0547385412
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   17 January 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you.

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"""Haunting . . . Written in the author's classic, clear style, these narratives enchant."" -- Boston Globe ""Dread, in fiction, can be a magnificent thing . . . Oates isn't writing horror fiction, but she might as well be. Her stories pack the same kind of visceral wallop."" -- Los Angeles Times"


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JOYCE CAROL OATES is the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and the winner of the National Book Award. Among her major works are We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, and The Falls.

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