Faithless - Tales of Transgression

Informationen zum Autor Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys ; Blonde , which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls , which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978. Klappentext In this collection of twenty-one unforgettable stories, Joyce Carol Oates explores the mysterious private lives of men and women with vivid, unsparing precision and sympathy. By turns interlocutor and interpreter, magician and realist, she dissects the psyches of ordinary people and their potential for good and evil with chilling understatement and lasting power. Zusammenfassung In this collection of twenty-one unforgettable stories! Joyce Carol Oates explores the mysterious private lives of men and women with vivid! unsparing precision and sympathy. By turns interlocutor and interpreter! magician and realist! she dissects the psyches of ordinary people and their potential for good and evil with chilling understatement and lasting power.

Product details

• Authors: Joyce Carol Oates
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.06.2002
• EAN: 9780060933579
• ISBN: 978-0-06-093357-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: Thrillers / General, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION: Crime, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), FICTION: Fantasy / Contemporary, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, FICTION: Horror