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Dis mem ber : and other stories of mystery and suspense / Joyce Carol Oates.
LIBRA PS3565.A8 A6 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Girls--Fiction.
- Girls.
- Danger perception.
- Women--Fiction.
- Women.
- Danger perception--Fiction.
- SUSPENSE.
- Local Subjects:
- SUSPENSE.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Mystery fiction.
- Suspense fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 237 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Dismember
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Mysterious Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- "Joyce Carol Oates is renowned for her rare ability to "illuminate the mind's most disturbing corners" (Seattle Times). That genius is on full display in her new collection of seven feverishly unsettling works, DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense. In the title story, a precocious eleven-year-old named Jill is in thrall to an older male relative, the mysterious, attractive black sheep of the family. Without telling her parents Jill climbs into his sky-blue Chevy to be driven to an uncertain, and unforgettable, fate. In "The Drowned Girl," a university transfer student becomes increasingly obsessed with the drowning/murder of another female student, as her own sense of self begins to deteriorate. In "Great Blue Heron," a recent widow grieves inside the confines of her lakefront home and fantasizes about transforming into that great flying predator-unerring and pitiless in the hunt. And in the final story, "Welcome to Friendly Skies," a trusting group of bird-watchers is borne to a remote part of the globe, to a harrowing fate. At the heart of this meticulously crafted, deeply disquieting collection are girls and women confronting the danger around them, and the danger hidden inside their turbulent selves"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Dis mem ber
- The crawl space
- Heartbreak
- The drowned girl
- The situations
- Great blue heron
- Welcome to friendly skies!
- Contains:
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Crawl space.
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Heartbreak.
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Drowned girl.
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Situations.
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Great blue heron.
- Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Welcome to friendly skies.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Dis mem ber and other stories of mystery and suspense.
- ISBN:
- 9780802126528
- 0802126529
- 9781786693983
- 1786693984
- OCLC:
- 975246719
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