Joyce Carol Oates
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From bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a taut and fascinating novel that examines the mysteries of human memory and personalityIn 1965, a young research scientist named Margot Sharpe meets Elihu Hoopes, the subject of her study, a handsome amnesiac who cannot remember anything beyond the last seventy seconds. Over the course of thirty years, the two embark on mirroring journeys of self-discovery. Margot, enthralled by her charming, mysterious, and deeply lonely patient, as well as her officious supervisor, attempts to unlock Eli’s shuttered memories of a childhood trauma without losing her own sense of identity in the process. And Eli, haunted by memories of an unknown girl’s body underneath the surface of a lake, pushes to finally know himself once again, despite potentially devastating consequences. As Margot and Eli meet over and over again, Joyce Carol Oates’ tightly written, nearly clinical prose propels the lives of these two characters forwards, both suspended in a dream-like, shadowy present, and seemingly balanced on the thinnest, sharpest of lines between past and future. Made vivid by Oates’ eye for detail and searing insight into the human psyche, The Man Without a Shadow is an eerie, ambitious, and structurally complex novel, as poignant as it is thrilling.
The Sacrifice
‘Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going’ Gillian FlynnBest-selling author Joyce Carol Oates blends sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power in her latest incendiary novel.Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates returns with an incendiary novel that illuminates the tragic impact of sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power on innocent lives and probes the persistence of stereotypes, the nature of revenge, the complexities of truth, and our insatiable hunger for sensationalism.When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanises her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades. In this magisterial work of fiction, Joyce Carol Oates explores the uneasy fault lines in a racially troubled society. In such a tense, charged atmosphere, Oates reveals that there must always be a sacrifice – of innocence, truth, trust, and, ultimately, of lives. Unfolding in a succession of multiracial voices, in a community transfixed by this alleged crime and the spectacle unfolding around it, this profound novel exposes what – and who – the “sacrifice” actually is, and what consequences these kind of events hold for us all.Working at the height of her powers, Oates offers a sympathetic portrait of the young girl and her mother, and challenges our expectations and beliefs about our society, our biases, and ourselves. As the chorus of its voices – from the police to the media to the victim and her family – reaches a crescendo, “The Sacrifice” offers a shocking new understanding of power and oppression, innocence and guilt, truth and sensationalism, justice and retribution.A chilling exploration of complex social, political, and moral themes – the enduring trauma of the past, modern racial and class tensions, the power of secrets, and the primal decisions we all make to protect those we love – “The Sacrifice” is a major work of fiction from one of our most revered literary masters.
Cardiff junto al mar
¿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.
Persecución
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
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
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
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
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.