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Joyce Carol Oates
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Barnvakten
DETROIT, 1977. I tidningarna kretsar nyheterna kring en seriemördare kallad Barnvakten. Hannah, hustru till en framgångsrik affärsman, bor i en av stadens välbärgade förorter och kan inte sluta oroa sig för att Barnvakten ska ta hennes egna barn. Samtidigt inleder hon en affär med en karismatisk främling, låter sig dras in i relationen och släpper […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Mitt liv som råtta
Ny roman av en av vår tids största författare! I Mitt liv som råtta får vi möta Violet Rue Kerrigan som tolv år gammal får veta att hennes två äldre bröder har begått ett rasistiskt mord på en afroamerikansk skolkamrat. När Violet gör det rätta och berättar om mordet, och bröderna grips och döms, blir […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
My Life as a Rat
A brilliant and thought-provoking novel about family, loyalty and betrayal. Once I’d been Daddy’s favourite. Before something terrible happened. Violet Rue is the baby of the seven Kerrigan children and adores her big brothers. What’s more, she knows that a family protects its own. To go outside the family – to betray the family – […]
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Contemporary Fiction - Fiction
Zero-Sum
In these powerfully wrought stories that hold a mirror up to our time, Joyce Carol Oates has created a world of erotic obsession, thwarted idealism, and ever-shifting identities. Provocative and stunning, Zero-Sum reinforces
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Fiction
A Book of American Martyrs
In this striking, enormously affecting novel, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families. Luther Dunphy is a zealous evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God’s will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town, while Augustus Voorhees, the idealistic but self-regarding doctor […]
169 SEK -
Fiction
Presentask med fyra amerikanska klassiker
En skräckens mästare, en kontroversiell och självutlämnande poet, en jazzålderns främste skildrare och en skarpögd och älskad samtidsförfattare – här hittar du fyra amerikanska storheters sällsamma och suggestiva berättelser om livet och döden, om drömmar; och om ren och skär fara. Presentask med fyra amerikanska klassiker: Huset Ushers undergång – Edgar Allen Poe Johnny Panic och drömbibeln – Sylvia Plath […]
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Fiction - Thriller
The Doll-Master And Other Tales Of Horror
‘Oates is simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going, as far as I’m concerned’ – Gillian Flynn 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 […]
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Biography - Memoir - Non Fiction
The Lost Landscape
A momentous memoir of childhood and adolescence from one of our finest and most beloved writers, as we’ve never seen her before. In The Lost Landscape, Joyce Carol Oates vividly recreates the early years of her life, powerfully evoking the romance of childhood and the way it colours everything that comes after. With memoriesranging from […]
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Fiction
The Man Without a Shadow
In 1965, a young research scientist named Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes, the subject of her study, a handsome amnesiac who cannot remember anything beyond the last seventy seconds. Over the course of thirty years
129 SEK