The Female Of The Species - Tales of Mystery and Suspense

Informationen zum Autor JOYCE CAROL OATES is the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and the winner of the National Book Award. Among her major works are We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, and The Falls. Klappentext A young wife is home alone when the phone rings in ?So Help Me God.? Is the strange voice flirting with her from the other end of the line her jealous husband laying a trap, or a stranger who knows entirely too much about her? In ?Madison at Guignol? an unhappy fashionista discovers a secret door inside her favorite clothing store and insists the staff let her enter. But even her fevered imagination cannot anticipate the horror they have been hiding from her. In these and other gripping and disturbing tales, women are confronted by the evil around them and surprised by the evil they find within themselves. With wicked insight, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates why the females of the species?be they six-year-old girls, seemingly devoted wives, or aging mothers?are by nature more deadly than the males. Zusammenfassung A young wife is home alone when the phone rings in “So Help Me God.” Is the strange voice flirting with her from the other end of the line her jealous husband laying a trap, or a stranger who knows entirely too much about her? In “Madison at Guignol” an unhappy fashionista discovers a secret door inside her favorite clothing store and insists the staff let her enter. But even her fevered imagination cannot anticipate the horror they have been hiding from her. In these and other gripping and disturbing tales, women are confronted by the evil around them and surprised by the evil they find within themselves. With wicked insight, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates why the females of the species—be they six-year-old girls, seemingly devoted wives, or aging mothers—are by nature more deadly than the males.

Product details

• Authors: Joyce Carol Oates
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2007
• EAN: 9780156030274
• ISBN: 978-0-15-603027-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Harvest Book; Harvest Book
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Short Stories, Thriller / suspense fiction, United States of America, USA, Occult fiction, Anthologies: general, Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: General, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION: Short Stories (single author), LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Collections & Anthologies