Cardiff, by the Sea (Four Novellas)

Cardiff, by the Sea (Four Novellas)
Joyce Carol Oates
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h198 x 129mm - 416pg
8 Jul 2021 UK
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9781800241411
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A collection of four previously unpublished novellas. In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful pieces, Joyce Carol Oates writes about women facing threats past and present. From one of the most important contemporary American writers, Cardiff, by the Sea is a bold, haunting collection of four previously unpublished novellas. A Pennsylvania academic discovers a terrifying trauma from her past after inheriting a house in Cardiff, Maine from someone she has never heard of. A pubescent girl overcome with loneliness befriends a feral cat that becomes her protector from the increasingly aggressive males that surround her. A brilliant but shy college sophomore realizes she is pregnant and, distraught, allows a distinguished visiting professor to take her under his wing. A widower remarries, but his young wife is haunted by his dead wife' s voice dancing in the wind. In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful pieces, Joyce Carol Oates writes about women facing threats past and present, and reminds us why she is so often praised as one of America' s most significant contemporary writers.
PRAISE FOR JOYCE CAROL OATES: ' Oates' s brand of horror has never required the invocation of other worlds: This world is terrible enough for her. Everything she writes, in whatever genre, has an air of dread, because she deals in vulnerabilities and inevitabilities, in the desperate needs that drive people . . . to their fates. A sense of helplessness is the essence of horror, and Oates conveys that feeling as well as any writer around' New York Times Book Review. ' Both haunting and sublime' Literary Review. ' An unsettling read worth every resulting jump in the night . . . [Oates is a] literary goddess' Daily Mail. ' As usual with Oates, it is horribly readable, but driven by something disturbingly like genuine misanthropy' Sunday Times. ' Oates chillingly depicts the darkness lurking within the everyday' Sunday Express. ' A writer of extraordinary strengths' Guardian.
Joyce Carol Oates is the author of over 70 books and the winner of a host of prizes including the National Book Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Oates is Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University.
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ISBN-13: 9781800241411
Published: 8 Jul 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Head of Zeus
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 416

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