Best Selling Books by Joyce Carol Oates

Six terrifying tales to chill the blood from the unique imagination of Joyce Carol Oates. A young boy plays with dolls instead of action figures. But as he grows older, his passion takes on a darker edge... A white man shoots dead a black youth creating a media frenzy. But could it have been self-defense as he claims? A nervous woman tries to escape her husband. He says he loves her, but she's convinced he wants to kill her... These quietly lethal stories reveal the horrors that dwell within us all.

Though he was the most famous and most highly regarded American artist of his era, George Bellows, the intense, prolific painter of the early twentieth century, has remained as much of an enigma to his successors as to his contemporaries. Best known for his gritty, impressionistic depictions of underground boxing and the lower east side of New York, Bellows was also influenced by cultural movements and theories of art as diverse as transcendentalism and surrealism. In George Bellows: American Artist, Joyce Carol Oates explores his life and work from the perspective of a writer and admirer. Examining Bellows' art within his historical and cultural contexts, Oates sheds new light on his technical versatility and voracious imagination.

Jerome Corcoran, Corky, a huit ans lorsque son père est assassiné sous ses yeux. Trente ans plus tard, Corky est l’exemple même de l’homme à qui tout sourit. Promoteur immobilier fl orissant, conseiller municipal à l’avenir politique prometteur, il laisse toujours de larges pourboires qui lui assurent une certaine renommée dans la ville de Union City. Bel appartement, les femmes lui tombent dans les bras. Mais il n’y en a qu’une qui compte, Thalia, la fille de son ex-femme. Elle a disparu et semble impliquée dans un scandale politico-fi nancier des plus envahissants. Joyce Carol Oates parvient à se glisser admirablement dans la peau d’un homme, dans ses forces et ses faiblesses et bien sûr sa libido. Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Claude Seban

New York Times bestsellers Sharyn McCrumb, Joyce Carol Oates, and Anne Perry each provided a brand-new, never-before-published tale for this unique collection of stories edited by New York Times bestselling author and mystery legend Ed McBain. "The Resurrection Man" by Sharyn McCrumb: During America's first century, doctors used any means necessary to advance their craft—including dissecting corpses. Sharyn McCrumb brings the South of the 1850s to life in this story of a man who is assigned to dig up bodies to help those that are still alive. "The Corn Maiden" by Joyce Carol Oates: When a twelve-year-old girl is abducted in a small New York town, the crime starts a spiral of destruction and despair as only this master of psychological suspense could write it. "Hostages" by Anne Perry: The bestselling historical mystery author has written a tale of beautiful yet still savage Ireland today. In their eternal struggle for freedom, there is about to be a changing of the guard in the Irish Republican Army. Yet for some, old habits—and honor—still die hard, even at gunpoint.

A new collection of mesmerizing, macabre tales from one of the most important living American writers (Peter Straub, The New Statesman).

Ein eindrucksvolles Porträt der größten Hollywood-Legende des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts: Marilyn Monroe 1926 wird Norma Jeane Baker in Los Angeles geboren. Ihre Kindheit ist von Einsamkeit und Sehnsucht geprägt. Als junge Frau hat sie bereits verinnerlicht, dass es für sie nur einen Weg gibt, sich ihres Selbstwertes zu versichern: über das Begehren der Männer. Ab da beginnt die Verwandlung zur Kunstfigur Marilyn Monroe. Einfühlsam und sprachgewaltig erzählt Joyce Carol Oates in ihrem Roman von der größten Hollywood-Legende des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, von ihrem Schmerz, ihrer Strahlkraft, ihren Träumen und ihrem tragischen Ende. »›Blond‹ ist ein moderner Klassiker.« Belletristik-couch.de, 30.03.2021 »Absolut packend und ehrlich.« Martina Sievers, Für Sie, 12.05.2021 “Ein erzählerisch wildester Ritt.” Thea Dorn, Das literarische Quartett ZDF, 14.05.2021 “Ein ganz beeindruckendes Werk, wie ein Punkkonzert. ” Eva Menasse, Das literarische Quartett ZDF, 14.05.2021 “Brutal, entlarvend.” Eva Menasse, Das literarische Quartett ZDF, 14.05.2021 » [...] historisch wie aktuell bestürzende[s] wahrhaftige[s] Buch«Wolfgang Schütz,Augsburger Allgemeine, 01.06.2021