Joyce Carol Oates

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    Cardiff junto al mar

    Joyce Carol Oates

    ¿Cómo contar la violencia, y en especial la de los hombres sobre las mujeres? ¿Cómo representar las mil caras de la dominación, y algunas posibles formas de la resistencia? La obra de Joyce Carol Oates pareciera estar continuamente respondiendo, repensando estas preguntas, ensayando formas siempre resonantes de narrar lo inenarrable, ese núcleo de absoluto salvajismo que acecha, segundo a segundo, todas nuestras relaciones. Cardiff junto al mar reúne cuatro novelas que regresan a personajes y conflictos clásicos del universo de Oates y superan con maestría, y con su estilo inconfundible, el desafío de insuflarles vida nueva: la joven que se choca de frente contra un trauma de la infancia sepultado en la memoria; la adolescente que busca cómo vengarse de sus acosadores; profesores que explotan la asimetría respecto de sus alumnas; maridos que asfixian a sus esposas, y esposas que conciben la más terrible de las represalias. Oates es implacable, imparable, tremenda; juega con nuestros nervios, nuestros estómagos, nuestra conciencia, y en la mejor tradición del suspense nunca da tregua.

    Blondynka

    Joyce Carol Oates

    Persecución

    Joyce Carol Oates

    El inconsciente puede traicionarnos, pero también salvarnos. Abby, la protagonista de Persecución, experimenta una regresión traumática luego de casarse y sufre un violento accidente que la deja en coma. Con este episodio inicial Joyce Carol Oates se adentra en los salvajes vericuetos de la mente de su protagonista y desanuda la trama de un pasado cargado de obsesión, abuso y muerte, para revelar la naturaleza engañosa de las apariencias. Con gran maestría Oates demuele las convenciones que sujetan los vínculos familiares y exhibe sin ambages las atrocidades cotidianas que se perpetran en nombre del amor.
    Novela de suspenso, thriller psicológico, historia de una pasión desenfrenada, Persecución es ante todo la obra de una autora inigualable.

    Cardiff am Meer

    Joyce Carol Oates

    In diesem Band mit vier bisher unveröffentlichten großen Erzählungen der bekannten Autorin werdendie Leser wieder einmal in eine Welt schaurig-spannender, psychologisch reizvoller Beziehungen befördert. Auslöser sind Vorfälle, die jedem von uns geläufig sind, sei es aus persönlicher Erfahrung oder durch Medienberichte. Da ist der Telefonanruf eines Fremden – soll ich den Anruf annehmen oder besser nicht? –, eine zugelaufene, herumstreunende Katze – kann sie die Rettung sein? –, die Beziehung einer jungen Studentin zu ihrem Mentor oder ein ungeklärter Selbstmord. In jeder dieser Erzählungen entspinnt sich zwischen den Protagonisten ein psychologisches Geflecht, das Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, Gedanken und Handlungen miteinander verflicht. Im Zentrum stehen bei Oates die bedrohlichen Erlebnisse junger Frauen, die sich in der Gegenwart mit Geschehnissen aus ihrer Vergangenheit auseinandersetzen müssen. Mit dieser Zusammenstellung ist es dem US-Verleger in einem geschickten Schachzug gelungen, Oates' Herzensanliegen – nämlich aufzuzeigen, wie Frauen in einer häufig psychisch und körperlich brutalen Männerwelt bestehen – in einem kompakten, inhaltlich stringenten Erzählband auf den Punkt zu bringen. Die Erzählungen sind spannend, überraschend, bemerkenswert. Die roten Fäden, die sich vom ersten Satz bis zur endgültigen Auflösung auf der letzten Seite durch die Geschichten ziehen, sind sprachlich fein durchdacht und auf höchstem literarischen Niveau.

    My Life as a Rat

    Joyce Carol Oates

    A brilliant and thought-provoking novel about family, loyalty and betrayalOnce 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 – is unforgiveable. So when she overhears a conversation not meant for her ears and discovers that her brothers have committed a heinous crime, she is torn between her loyalty to her family and her sense of justice. The decision she takes will change her life for ever.Exploring racism, misogyny, community, family, loyalty, sexuality and identity, this is a dark story with a tense and propulsive atmosphere – Joyce Carol Oates at her very best.

    We Were the Mulvaneys

    Joyce Carol Oates

    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.

    Hazards of Time Travel

    Joyce Carol Oates

    An ingenious dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society‘Unrelentingly disturbing’ Observer‘Taps deep into contemporary anxieties over the rise of surveillance, totalitarian governments and invasive technology’ Daily Mail‘Oates is still casting some awfully dark magic’ Washington PostWhen a recklessly idealistic girl in a dystopian future society dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled world, she is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America – ‘Wainscotia, Wisconsin’ – that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town, she is set upon a course of ‘rehabilitation’ – but she falls in love with a fellow exile and starts to question the constraints of her new existence, with results that are both devastating and liberating.Arresting and visionary, Hazards of Time Travel is an exquisitely wrought love story, a novel of harrowing discovery – and an oblique but powerful response to our current political climate.

    My Life as a Rat

    Joyce Carol Oates

    A brilliant and thought-provoking novel about family, loyalty and betrayalOnce 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 – is unforgiveable. So when she overhears a conversation not meant for her ears and discovers that her brothers have committed a heinous crime, she is torn between her loyalty to her family and her sense of justice. The decision she takes will change her life for ever.Exploring racism, misogyny, community, family, loyalty, sexuality and identity, this is a dark story with a tense and propulsive atmosphere – Joyce Carol Oates at her very best.

    New Jersey Noir

    Joyce Carol Oates

    "Oates's introduction to Akashic's noir volume dedicated to the Garden State, with its evocative definition of the genre, is alone worth the price of the book . . . Poems by C.K. Williams, Paul Muldoon, and others–plus photos by Gerald Slota–enhance this distinguished entry."–Publishers Weekly"It was inevitable that this fine noir series would reach New Jersey. It took longer than some readers might have wanted, but, oh boy, was it worth the wait . . . More than most of the entries in the series, this volume is about mood and atmosphere more than it is about plot and character . . . It should go without saying that regular readers of the noir series will seek this one out, but beyond that, the book also serves as a very good introduction to what is a popular but often misunderstood term and style of writing."–Booklist, Starred Review"A lovingly collected assortment of tales and poems that range from the disturbing to the darkly humorous."–Shelf AwarenessFeaturing brand-new stories (and a few poems) by: Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Safran Foer, Robert Pinsky, Edmund White & Michael Carroll, Richard Burgin, Paul Muldoon, Sheila Kohler, C.K. Williams, Gerald Stern, Lou Manfredo, S.A. Solomon, Bradford Morrow, Jonathan Santlofer, Jeffrey Ford, S.J. Rozan, Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini, Hirsh Sawhney, and Robert Arellano.From the introduction by Joyce Carol Oates:". . . The most civilized and 'decent' among us find that we are complicit with the most brutal murderers. We enter into literally unspeakable alliances–of which we dare not speak except through the obliquities and indirections of fiction, poetry, and visual art of the sort gathered here in New Jersey Noir."