Bøger af Joyce Carol Oates

A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we'd chosen a different path, from a master of the short storyIn this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might have led if we'd made different choices.

"A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community; a man returns from the dead to haunt his grieving wife; a young mother finds herself captivated by her own motherhood. In the collection's longest story, a much-praised writer cruelly experiments with "drafts" of his own suicide. 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 Oates's standing as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life"--

The stunning, classic portrait of a powerful man's downward spiral to moral ruinJerome ?Corky? Corcoran is a money-juggling wheeler-dealer, rising politico, popular man's man, and unscrupulous womanizer. Over the course of Memorial Day weekend in 1992, Corky's illusions?and the life he has built for himself?are about to be shattered as he tries to keep his financial empire from unraveling, his love life from shredding, and himself from succumbing to his violent attraction to his own young stepdaughter.Originally published in 1994, What I Lived For is a portrait of a man in all his desperate, grasping weakness; his hunger, ambition, and corruption. And through this portrayal, Joyce Carol Oates?one of our most mesmerizing writers?reveals the intricate web of American society in all its tragic and flawed complexity.

The latest Ecco reissue of Joyce Carol Oates' early classics: a fiery gothic tale of doomed fates and demons of biblical proportions in rural New York state Nathan Vickery came into the world amid unfortunate circumstances. His mother, Elsa Vickery, daughter of an agnostic small town doctor and his pious wife, was brutally assaulted at the age of seventeen. The son she gave birth to in the wake of this event is brought up by his grandmother as a devoted Christian. At the age of seven, Nathan begins to see visions of Christ and embarks on a path as a prodigy boy-preacher, hurtling toward enlightenment while increasingly falling under the dangerous spell of power. Nathan becomes the leader of an evangelical church, accumulating vast riches from donation. Each year, his visions grow more elaborate and grandiose. When he suddenly feels that God has forsaken him, is it punishment for indulging in the sins of lust, pride, and greed that he has long preached against? Joyce Carol Oates's talent for searing psychological inquiry and her eye for detail as well as her knack for indelible character portrayals and unflinching social commentary are fully on display in Son of the Morning. Fans of her work will be thrilled to see this early novel, the influences of which can be observed in later tour-de-force works like A Book of American Martyrs and The Sacrifice.

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Un quartier populaire d'une petite ville ouvriere de l'Etat de New York dans les annees 1950. Cinq lyceennes - Maddy, la narratrice, Goldie, Lana, Rita et Legs -, pour survivre et se venger des humiliations qu'elles ont subies, concluent un pacte, a la vie, a la mort: elles seront le gang Foxfire. La haine, surtout celle des hommes, va les entrainer dans une impitoyable equipee sauvage. Dans une langue crue, precise et concrete, Joyce Carol Oates depeint la fureur de vivre des cinq inseparables et leurs acces de generosite envers d'autres desherites. Comme toujours chez l'auteur de Blonde, le Mal est d'autant plus vraisemblable qu'il nous ressemble...Laurent Cantet, Palme d'or a Cannes en 2008 (Entre les murs), a adapte le roman de Joyce Carol Oates pour le cinema en 2013 sous le titre de Foxfire.

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.

A mesmerizing storyteller who seems almost unnaturally able to enter the tormented inner lives of her characters.Denver PostBlack Dahlia White Rose is a brilliant collection of short fiction from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. These stores, at once lyrical and unsettling, shine with the authors trademark fascination with finding the unpredictable amidst the prosaicfrom her imaginative recreation of friendship between two tragically doomed young women (Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Short), to the tale of an infidelity as deeply human as it is otherworldly. Black Dahlia White Rose is a major offering from one of the most important artists in contemporary American literature; a superb collection that showcases Joyce Carol Oatess ferocious energy and darkly imaginative storytelling power.

Joyce Carol Oates has performed a full review of her acclaimed 1992 anthology, The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, and in this second edition embraces those authors who have come to define turn-of-the-century American literature. Jhumpa Lahiri, Junot Diaz, Richard Ford, and David Foster Wallace are just a few of the authors whose stories are now represented. Each story is accompanied by a brief introduction, and there is also a fascinating introductory essay by Joyce Carol Oates that explains why these stories form the foundation of the American literary canon, and the trends and innovations that have taken place in the last twenty years.

A NOVEL OF LOVE AND LOSS FROM BESTSELLING AND PRIZEWINNING AUTHOR JOYCE CAROL OATESAmid a starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape in New Mexico, a married couple from Cambridge, MA takes residency at a distinguished academic institute. When the husband is stricken with a mysterious illness, misdiagnosed at first, their lives are uprooted and husband and wife each embarks upon a nightmare journey. At thirty-seven, Michaela faces the terrifying prospect of widowhood - and the loss of Gerard, whose identity has greatly shaped her own. In vividly depicted scenes of escalating suspense, Michaela cares desperately for Gerard in his final days as she comes to realize that her love for her husband, however fierce and selfless, is not enough to save him and that his death is beyond her comprehension. A love that refuses to be surrendered at death?is this the blessing of a unique married love, or a curse that must be exorcized? Part intimately detailed love story, part horror story rooted in real life, BREATHE is an exploration of hauntedness rooted in the domesticity of marital love, as well as our determination both to be faithful to the beloved and to survive the trauma of loss.

Natten. Søvnen. Døden. Stjernerne. er en gribende skildring af det moderne Amerika set gennem en familietragedies prisme. Whitey McClaren er tidligere borgmester og en respekteret mand i det samfund, hvor han bor. Da han en dag standser bilen for at stoppe to politimænd, der brutalt mishandler en mand, ender han med selv at blive angrebet. Den korte tid, han efterfølgende har tilbage af sit liv, tilbringer han på hospitalet, omgivet af sin kone Jessalyn og deres fem voksne børn. I Natten. Søvnen. Døden. Stjernerne. giver Joyce Carol Oates os historien om, hvordan en familie bliver testet som følge af en tragedie, hvordan båndene mellem familiemedlemmer påvirkes, og hvordan alle reagerer på deres egen måde - mere eller mindre uventet – men den sørgende enke måske på den mest forbavsende måde af alle. Joyce Carol Oates er siden sin debut i 1963 blevet hædret med et væld af priser og nomineringer. Blandt andet har hun vundet The National Book Award, og hun har været nomineret til Pulitzer-prisen hele fem gange. Senest er hun også blevet tildelt the Jerusalem Prize, som gives til en forfatter, der giver stemme til en vision om menneskelig frihed. Denne pris er tidligere givet til forfattere som Don DeLillo, Susan Sontag og J. M. Coetzee. Joyce Carol Oates er Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor på det humanistiske fakultet på Princeton University i USA. På HarperCollins er tidligere udkommet romanen Mit liv som rotte i 2019.

The powerful stories in this extraordinary collectionNincluding OThe Corn MaidenO and the never-before-published OHelping HandsONfurther enhance six-time National Book Award nominee Oates' standing as one of the world's greatest writers of suspense.