I serien Entimmesboken presenteras riktigt bra och engagerande noveller. Merparten är klassiker, men nyheterna i serien är skrivna av moderna författare. Fler kvinnliga och fler svenska författare kommer att vara representerade i kommande böcker. Varje bok i serien ska ge läsaren känslan av a[...]

Drawing on syllabi for Joyce Carol Oates s own writing seminar at Princeton University, Telling Stories gathers over one hundred works of narrative art "miniature" narratives, dramatic monologues, early stories by well-known writers, prose pieces inspired by myth, legend, and folktale, poems that te[...]

Francesca Franky Pierson är fjorton när hon första gången upptäcker en annan och tuffare sida av sig själv: Vilda gröna ögon tvekar inte att säga ifrån. Franky och hennes lillasyster börjar ana att allt inte står rätt till mellan deras föräldrar. Varför vill deras mamma allt oftare r[...]

A compelling study of the hidden life of America's suburbs presents the journal of eighteen-year old Richard Elwood, an unhappy, overweight teen who looks back at his childhood in a succession of wealthy suburbs and roams the neighborhood at night armed with a German sniper rifle. Reprint. 15,000 fi[...]

An intimate and unsparing self-portrait of a young woman who comes of age in the most turbulent of American decades, this novel charts the journey of "Anellia", through hedonistic freedom, love, rejection and a journey to meet a "lost" figure from the past.[...]

New novel from the bestselling author of BIG MOUTH AND UGLY GIRL.

When her mother uncharacteristically fails to return her phone calls, 31-year-old Nikki Eaton calls in to check up on her. She finds the house turned upside-down, and her mother lying dead, murdered. This is the story of a woman coming to terms with the violent death of her mother, and uncovering al[...]

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. 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' tells the tale of Rebecca Schwart, born in the late 1930s to an i[...]

Set in the mythical small city of Sparta, New York, this searing, vividly rendered exploration of the mysterious conjunction of erotic romance and tragic violence in late 20th-century America. When a young wife and mother named Zoe Kruller is found brutally murdered, the Sparta police target two pri[...]

Joyce Carol Oates has been heralded as one of the world's greatest contemporary writers.

In 2008, after her husband died unexpectedly, Joyce was faced - totally unprepared - with the reality of widowhood. This is the harrowing memoir of her loss and her struggle to comprehend a life abse[...]

A haunting new novel from one of America's most prolific and respected novelists. Mudgirl is a child abandoned by her mother in the silty flats of the Black Snake River. Cast aside, Mudgirl survives by an accident of fate - or destiny. After her rescue, she will slowly forget her own origin, her pa[...]

A young girl's disappearance rocks a community and a family, in this stirring examination of grief, faith, justice and the atrocities of war, from literary legend Joyce Carol Oates.[...]

This eerie tale of psychological horror sees the real inhabitants of turn-of-the-century Princeton fall under the influence of a supernatural power.[...]