A Fair Maiden

A Fair Maiden
Joyce Carol Oates
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Paperback
h197 x 130mm - 176pg
30 Sep 2010 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781849162609
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A short, gripping suspense novel in which an elderly aristocrat becomes obsessed with a young girl Fifteen-year-old Katya Spivak is out for a walk on the streets of Bayhead Harbor, New Jersey when she is approached by silver-haired, elegant Marcus Kidder. At first his interest in her seems harmless; like his name, a sort of joke. His beautiful home, the children's books that he has written, his lavish gifts to her: Mr. Kidder's life couldn't be more different from Katya's drab existence back home ' or more enticing. But by degrees, almost imperceptibly, something changes, and posing for Mr Kidder's new painting isn't the light-hearted endeavour it once was. What does he really want from her? And how far will he go to get it? This spare, chilling novel shows Joyce Carol Oates at the height of her powers as a literary storyteller.
'Exceptional talent for the Gothic/thriller genre... the narrative tension becomes almost unbearable' TLS. 'Pure fairytale, a modern day Little Red Riding Hood in which Katya exacts her own revenge against the wolf... Oates has an indisputable ability to sustain ambient darkness and ominous unease' Guardian. 'The prose is taut, the insight shrewd and the violence vivid, but what lingers in the mind is the painful ambiguity of contemporary human interaction' New Statesman. 'A delightfully chilling and playful novella from a literary genius' Daily Mail.
Joyce Carol Oates is an American literary giant whose work embraces full-length fiction, short stories, poetry, plays, essays and criticism. Her many novels include We Were the Mulvaneys, which was an Oprah Book Club Choice, and Blonde, which was nominated for a National Book Award. Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton. She lives in New Jersey.

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