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Zusatztext Praise for Daddy Love : “After all these years, Joyce Carol Oates can still give me the creeps. Oates is a mind-reader who writes psychological horror stories about seriously disturbed minds, and it’s hard to tear your eyes away from her grimly detailed portrait of Daddy Love . But her insights into nice, ordinary people—the kind of people Robbie’s parents used to be, before their son was stolen—are no less incisive. Oates has more knives to throw before bringing this harrowing tale to a close—but she saves the sharpest one for the very last page.” —Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review "Wrenching, tightly written and focused . . . a grim examination of how humans cope with unspeakable physical and psychological pain. She illuminates the darkest corners and shows us the startled, troubled creatures hiding there, nursing their wounds, staring back at us, their kin." — Cleveland Plain-Dealer "I haven't met a Joyce Carol Oates story or novel that I didn't like and Daddy Love is no exception." — Huntington News "Haunting, terrifying, disturbing.” — Atlantic Wire “Joyce Carol Oates, author of dozens of grim novels, knows the dark side of life better than most and explores it here in a lean and disturbing tale that reverberates after its ending.” — Columbus Dispatch “Oates makes us squirm as she forces us to see some of the action through Love’s twisted and warped perspective.” — Kirkus Reviews “This unsettling tale showcases Oates’s masterful storytelling.” — Publishers Weekly “An urgently compelling and drastically revealing study of evil, habitual terror, and survival.” — Booklist " Daddy Love is a book not to be taken lightly . . . [it] pushes us to confront what lurks behind the front door." — New York Journal of Books "Joyce Carol Oates’s latest book is a horror. As in horror story, frightening, alarmingly realistic. The monsters in Daddy Love are people, not fantastical creatures from the deep or outer space. They are human." — PopMatters Informationen zum Autor JOYCE CAROL OATES is the author of such national bestsellers as The Falls, Blonde, and We Were the Mulvaneys. Her other titles for The Mysterious Press include Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense, which features “The Woman in the Window,” selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2017; The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, which won the 2016 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection; The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares, which won the 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Short Horror Fiction; and Jack of Spades. She is the recipient of the National Book Award for them and the 2010 President’s National Humanities Medal. Klappentext From one of the most acclaimed writers of our time comes a horrifying tale of a child abducted by a reverend who systematically tortures young boys physically and emotionally before eventually killing them. Zusammenfassung “It’s hard to tear your eyes away from her grimly detailed portrait of Daddy Love . . . Oates has more knives to throw before bringing this harrowing tale to a close—but she saves the sharpest one for the very last page.” — The New York Times Book Review Dinah Whitcomb seemingly has everything. A loving and successful husband, and a smart, precocious young son named Robbie. One day, their worlds are shattered when Dinah is attacked and Robbie is taken in a mall parking lot. Dinah, injured, attempts to follo...
