Bøker av Joyce Carol Oates

The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society

The unforgettable story of the rise, fall and ultimate redemption of an American family.The Mulvaneys are seemingly blessed by everything that makes life sweet. They live together in the picture-perfect High Point Farm, just outside the community of Mt Ephraim, New York, where they are respected and liked by everybody.Yet something happens on Valentine's Day 1976. An incident involving Marianne Mulvaney, the pretty sixteen-year-old daughter, is hushed up in the town and never discussed within the family. The impact of this event reverberates throughout the lives of the characters.As told by Judd, years later, in an attempt to make sense of his own past reveals the unspoken truths of that night that rends the fabric of the family life with tragic consequences. In 'We Were the Mulvaneys', Joyce Carol Oates, the highly acclaimed author of 'Blonde', masterfully weaves an unforgettable story of the rise, fall and ultimate redemption of an American family.

From the author of 'Blonde', 'The Falls' and 'We Were the Mulvaneys', this new novel takes in the themes of race, immigration, family and social mobility, and is Joyce Carol Oates at her storytelling best.

Two families. Two faces of America. An act of violence with far-reaching consequences.Gus Voorhees is a pioneer in the advancement of women's reproductive rights and a controversial abortion provider in the American Midwest. One morning as he arrives at his clinic, he is ambushed by a hardline Christian, Luther Dunphy, and shot dead.The killing leaves in its wake two fatherless families: the Voorheeses, who are affluent, highly educated, secular and pro-choice, and the Dunphys, their opposite on all counts.When the daughters of the two families, Naomi Voorhees and Dawn Dunphy, glimpse each other at the trial of Luther Dunphy, their initial response is mutual hatred. But their lives are tangled together forever by what has happened, and throughout the years to come and the events that follow, neither can quite forget the other...'The story of Trump's America'Daily Mail'The most relevant book of Oates's half-century-long career . . . a masterpiece' Washington Post'Oates's American saga captivates because it exists within an actual drama playing out across the country. A graceful and excruciating story of two families who do not live very far apart, but exist in different realities' USA Today

These new, recent, and reformulated stories by Joyce Carol Oates, collected here for the first time, showcase a wide range of crime fiction and psychological suspense. A young, insecure woman finds her relationship changing as she grows more and more dependent on a man who likes to take her on long walks beside a dangerously roaring creek. Another woman, nervous around men, not quite knowing how to act when paid a compliment, becomes flustered when a doctor suggests they go out for coffee, or possibly a drink. She finally decides that she will join him when he suggests they meet at his home. A man is so forgetful that his wife panics and yells into his phone, asking where their daughter has gone. A young man is curious to see why sirens have filled the night and the police arrest him, beginning an unimaginable nightmare. A woman resents that a colleague has achieved greater success and thinks she ought to do something about it. It is impossible to know where a story by the creative genius of Joyce Carol Oates will end and what frightening paths will lead to that end.

"Later, I would think of it as crossing over. From a known territory into an unknown. From a place where people know you to a place where people only think they know you." Sometimes Franky Pierson has a hard time dealing with life. Like when her parents separate and her mother vanishes, Franky wants to believe that her mom has simply pulled a disappearing act. Yet deep within herself, a secret part of her she calls Freaky Green Eyes knows that something is terribly wrong. And only Freaky can open Franky's eyes to the truth.

An engrossing early novel from Joyce Carol Oates explores a fraught and perilous relationship between two womenOriginally published in 1985, Solstice is the gripping story of Monica Jensen and Sheila Trask, two young women who are complete opposites yet find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. Monica is a shy, modest, and recently divorced schoolteacher, while Sheila is a worldly, sophisticated, and nocturnal painter driven by the needs of her art. Over the months, their friendship deepens, first to love and then to a near-fatal obsession.Engaging, dark, and mysterious, Solstice is Joyce Carol Oates's psychological masterpiece of friendship and fixation.

Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors - including Margaret Atwood, Raven Leilani, and Cassandra Khaw - to explore, subvert, and reinvent one of the most vital subgenres of horror

This rich compilation of Joyce Carol Oates's letters across four decades displays her warmth and generosity, her droll and sometimes wicked sense of humor, her phenomenal energy, and most of all, her mastery of the lost art of letter writing.

From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’s asylum in the nineteenth century, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the worldIn this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, “Father of Gyno-Psychiatry,” as he ascends from professional anonymity to national renown. Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics, where he reigns. There, he is allowed to continue his practice, unchecked for decades, making a name for himself by focusing on women who have been neglected by the state—women he subjects to the most grotesque modes of experimentation. As he begins to establish himself as a pioneer of nineteenth-century surgery, Weir’s ambition is fueled by his obsessive fascination with a young Irish indentured servant named Brigit, who becomes not only Weir’s primary experimental subject, but also the agent of his destruction.Narrated by Silas Weir’s eldest son, who has repudiated his father’s brutal legacy, Butcher is a unique blend of fiction and fact, a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche conjoined, in its startling conclusion, with unexpected romance. Once again, Joyce Carol Oates has written a spellbinding novel confirming her position as one of our celebrated American visionaries of the imagination.

'Oates's imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll's' Rose Tremain

The first novel from New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a thrilling, dark tale of family, revenge, and two souls intertwined by love and violence?now back in print for fans of America's most prolific storytellerWritten when Joyce Carol Oates was in her early twenties, and first published in 1964, With Shuddering Fall is her powerful debut novel.Following the turbulent story of two lovers who discover themselves mortal enemies, the author explores the struggle for dominance in erotic relationships that has become a predominant theme in her work, as well as the perils of patriarchal inheritance, and the ripple-effects of emotional loss in adolescence. The result is an unsentimental yet sympathetic rendering of a disastrous love affair in which hatred is nearly as powerful as love, and a yearning for destruction is an abiding and insatiable passion.Discover what prompted the New York Times to compare this young writer's debut to Shirley Jackson's famous short story ?The Lottery.? Readers looking for a place to start in Joyce Carol Oates's vast catalogue will be intrigued by the sheer narrative force of the young author, and her willingness to anatomize the darkest recesses of humanity in a search for redemption and resolution.

«de der» følger en familie i Detroit gjennom tre tiår, fra de harde 1930-årene til de blodige raseopptøyene i 1967. Den unge moren Loretta Wendall lever i fattigslige kår, og datteren Maureen og sønnen Jules må tidlig kjempe for å overleve. Maureen ønsker seg bort fra volden som omgir dem, men det er ikke bare lett å unnslippe. Jules går sine egne veier, men stadig i en spiral av vold og overgrep. «de der» er en gripende roman om kjærlighet, klasse, makt, etnisitet og hva mennesker kan være i stand til når de blir presset til det ytterste.

When a woman mysteriously vanishes from her small town home, her sister must tally up the clues to uncover the truth behind the mystery.Beautiful sculptor Marguerite has disappeared from her small town in upstate New York. But was foul play involved? Did she merely get away for some fun? Or did she finally make the decision to leave behind her claustrophobic life of limited opportunities?Younger sister Gigi wonders if the flimsy silk Dior dress, so casually abandoned on the floor, is a clue to Marguerite's vanishing. The police puzzle over the footprints made by her Ferragamo boots, which end abruptly close to her home.Bit by bit, revelations about both women are uncovered, as Gigi, not so pretty as her sister, reveals her true feelings about the perfect, much-loved Marguerite. The fate of the missing beauty slowly and subtly comes to light In this suspenseful story about the complex relationship between two sisters.48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister is an exquisitely suspenseful tale from Joyce Carol Oates, literary icon and author of Blonde and We Were the Mulvaneys.'This elegant, captivating tale is un-put-downable.' Publishers Weekly 'Perfect for all the Daisy Jones & the Six fans out there.' Katie Couric Media'Another masterpiece of storytelling.' Booklist'Not just a ripping good mystery, but a meticulous character study.' Los Angeles Magazine

Rebecca Schwart og familien flytter til USA på flukt fra nazismen i Tyskland på slutten av 1930-tallet. Fra å tilhøre en kultivert middelklasse i Tyskland må faren ta seg jobb som kirkegårdsgraver i en småby utenfor New York. Familien takler overgangen dårlig og det ender i en tragedie. Men datteren Rebecca klarer seg mot alle odds. Hun skaper seg en ny identitet for seg og sin sønn, og lar sitt gamle liv bli en godt bevart hemmelighet.

En mann klatrer over rekkverket og kaster seg ned i Niagara-fallene. Han er nygift, og hans kone Alma sitter alene igjen i brudesuiten, morgenen etter bryllupet deres. I to uker venter hun ved de brølende vannmassene på at kroppen hans skal bli funnet. Mens hun våker, starter en usannsynlig ny kjærlighetshistorie mellom henne og en velstående advokat, som fengsles av hennes underlige, eteriske blikk.

Familen Mulvaney lever tilsynelatende et perfekt familieliv og er respektert og likt av alle. Men på valentinsdagen i 1976 skjer det noe som den 16 år gamle datteren Marianne er involvert i. Det blir hysjet ned i byen og blir ikke diskutert i familien. Denne hendelsen preger senere personenes liv. Flere år senere prøver yngstesønnen Judd å få klarhet i sin egen fortid.

En viktig roman om vold og kjærlighet fra en av USAs mest betydelige forfattere. Raseskillet står sterkt i 1950-årenes USA, og fører ofte til eksplosive episoder - også i den lille industribyen Hammond i staten New York, der den hvite jenta Iris Courtney og det svarte basketballtalentet Jinx Fairchild vokser opp. En sen kveld, i forsøket på å beskytte Iris mot et overfall, dreper Jinx en hvit mann - med Iris som eneste vitne. Den tragiske hendelsen knytter et hemmelig bånd mellom de to, som bygger på like deler tiltrekning, frykt og skam. Det vil følge dem gjennom livet og endre den veien de velger å gå. Fordi det er bittert og fordi det er mitt hjerte er blitt kalt et mesterverk innen den realistiske samtidslitteraturen, og er en av de aller beste fra Joyce Carol Oates' rikholdige rekke med romaner.

På dørhåndtaket til rom nummer 6183 på Renaissance Grand Hotel henger skiltet: «OPPTATT! IKKE FORSTYRR». Hannah vet at det å ignorere advarselen og tre inn i rommet ugjenkallelig vil endre livet hennes. I kjølvannet av en rekke uløste barnedrap i Detroit på 1970-tallet, vikles livene til flere personer sammen - og med tragiske konsekvenser: Hannah, en velstående forstadsfrue og mor, gift med en fremstående lokal forretningsmann, har dratt til hotellet for å innlede en affære med en mystisk mann hun møtte på en veldedighetsgalla. Den tidligere barnehjemsgutten Mikey, en gatesmart småkjeltring, er ute på oppdrag for å gjøre opp for urett. I periferien av Detroit-eliten opererer seriemorderen, kjent som Barnevakten. «Barnevakten» er en bitende anklage mot korrupte politikere, et oppgjør med fordekt rasisme og seksuell rovdyrmentalitet - en psykologisk spenningsroman som tar pulsen på det moderne USA slik bare Joyce Carol Oates kan.

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"--