Joyce Carol Oates

Dejstvie romana, semejnoj sagi o sudbakh neskolkikh pokolenij Belfljorov, okhvatyvaet bolee dvukhsot let i proiskhodit v vymyshlennom gornom kraju na beregu ozera Lejk-Nuar gde-to na severe Soedinennykh Shtatov. Sobytija razvorachivajutsja v porazhajuschem voobrazhenie zamke, vystroennom v pamjat o rodovom gnezde Belfljorov vo Frantsii, otkuda v kontse XVIII veka priekhal v moloduju stranu rodonachalnik semejstva Zhan-Per. V tsentre povestvovanija - pokolenie semi veka dvadtsatogo, Gideon Belfljor i ego vlastnaja i strastnaja zhena Leja. Na primere udivitelnykh, a poroj pochti fantasticheskikh sobytij ikh zhizni avtor razvorachivaet shirokuju panoramu, gde istorii rokovoj ljubvi perepletajutsja s opisanijami zhestokikh prestuplenij, a rasskaz o finansovom genii - s filosofskimi razmyshlenijami o velichii i nichtozhnosti chelovecheskoj prirody. Pogruzivshis v khitrospletenija sjuzheta, chitatel ne smozhet otorvatsja ot knigi do samogo grandioznogo finala." Saga o Belfljorakh" dokazyvaet, chto Outs stoit v rjadu velichajshikh pisatelej nashego vremeni... Eto potrjasajuschee, derznovennoe proizvedenie, obrazets slijanija ne znajuschego granits voobrazhenija i vysokogo intellekta." Nju-Jork tajms"

Joyce Carol Oates, the "grand mistress of ghoulishness" (Publishers Weekly), showcases her mastery in four deeply disturbing novellas that will leave the reader both quaking and pining for more In the titular novella, an academic in Pennsylvania discovers a terrifying trauma from her past after inheriting a house in Cardiff, Maine from someone she has never heard of. Mia, the protagonist of "Miao Dao," is a pubescent girl overcome with loneliness, who befriends a feral cat that becomes her protector from the increasingly aggressive males that surround her. A brilliant but shy college sophomore realizes that she is pregnant in "Phan-tomwise: 1972." Distraught, she allows a distinguished visiting professor to take her under his wing, though it quickly becomes evident that he is interested in more than an academic mentorship. Lastly, "The Surviving Child" is Stefan, who was spared when his mother, a famous poet, killed his sister and herself. Stefan's father remarries, but his young wife is haunted by dead poet's voice dancing in the wind, an inexplicably befouled well, and a compulsive draw to the same gar-age that took two lives. In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful pieces, Joyce Carol Oates writes about women facing threats past and present.

El libro finalista del National Book Award, un bestseller que explora la vida y leyenda de la gran estrella de Hollywood, la rubia eterna, Marilyn Monroe. La vida de la actriz contada por Joyce Carol Oates, y que se ha convertido tambi n en uno de los estrenos m s esperados en NETFLIX, con las actuaciones de Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale y Julianne Nicholson. Uno de los 40 libros imprescindibles escritos por mujeres, seg n Elena Ferrante. «Oates es una de nuestras autoras favoritas, ...] indestructible, ...] una tipa absolutamente genial. Me gusta mucho, es buen sima, tiene una mirada super l cida y tremenda; tambi n me gusta mucho el mito de Marilyn, del xito destructivo. ...] El libro es fant stico, como todo lo que hace ella. --Carlos Zan n, Babelia, El Pa s Marilyn Monroe era puro fuego, sensualidad a flor de piel, romances turbulentos, pero tambi n era una mujer fr gil, asustada y repleta de inseguridades que buscaba en otros --en el ex deportista, en el dramaturgo o en el presidente-- ese amor que ella misma se negaba. Una artista superdotada cargada de conflictos, temores y pasiones desatadas; una ni a que no dej de huir y que lleg a burlar a la propia muerte para convertirse en leyenda. Tras una exhaustiva documentaci n, Joyce Carol Oates redibuja la vida interior de Norma Jeane Baker --la peque a sin padre, la mujer dependiente de tranquilizantes y estimulantes, la actriz y amante malograda-- y a su «Amiga M gica del Espejo , la rubia idolatrada a la que el mundo lleg a conocer como Marilyn Monroe. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The National Book Award finalist and national bestseller exploring the life and legend of Marilyn Monroe. Soon to be a NETFLIX movie starring Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne Nicholson From acclaimed writer Joyce Carol Oates, the author of The Gravedigger's Daughter. An impressive and heartbreaking portrait of Norma Jeane Baker, better known as Marilyn Monroe, by one of the best North American writers. Marilyn Monroe was pure fire, raw sexuality, turbulent romances; but she was also fragile, a scared woman full of insecurities that sought in others - the Former Athlete, the Playwright or the President - the love that she denied herself. An emblematic artist ladened with conflicts and fears, with unleashed passion; a girl who did not stop fleeing forward, and ended up cheating her own death to become a legend. After exhaustive documentation, Joyce Carol Oates redraws the inner life of Norma Jeane Baker --the little fatherless girl, the woman dependent on tranquilizers and stimulants, the ill-fated actress and lover-- and her "Magic Friend in the Mirror," the idolized blonde that the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe.

‘America’s preeminent fiction writer’ New Yorker ‘A raw, propulsive tale of love and grief’ Mail on Sunday Michaela and her husband have moved to the starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape of New Mexico, to take residency at a distinguished academic institute. But then Gerard is stricken with a mysterious illness, initially misdiagnosed, and soon their life begins to resemble a nightmare. At thirty-seven, Michaela faces the terrifying prospect of widowhood – and the loss of Gerard, whose identity has greatly shaped her own. In vividly depicted scenes of escalating suspense, Michaela cares desperately for Gerard in his final days, and then careens through the chaos of the days after he is gone. Her love for her husband, however fierce and selfless, has not been enough to save him and his death is beyond her comprehension. A love that refuses to be surrendered at death – is this the blessing of a unique married love, or a curse that must be exorcized? Breathe is an exploration of haunting, a horror story about the raw madness of grief, and an intense, heart-wrenching love story that grapples with the philosophical questions most fundamental to our existence.

På slutten av 1930-tallet kommer den tysk-jødiske familien Schwart til USA etter å ha flyktet fra nazismen i Tyskland. Der har familien tilhørt den kultiverte middelklassen, men i Amerika må faren ta seg jobb som kirkegårdsgraver i en liten småby utenfor New York. Her møter de både fordommer og fattigdom, en overgang de takler dårlig. Det ender med tragedie. Men datteren Rebecca klarer seg mot alle odds. Historien om hvordan hun klorer seg opp og fram gjennom tilværelsen, tar leseren med på en reise gjennom alle samfunnslag i etterkrigstidens Amerika. Graverens datter er en storslått roman om overlevelse, tilhørighet og en kvinnes kamp for et nytt og bedre liv, skrevet av en av USAs aller største forfattere.

'America's preeminent fiction writer' New Yorker'A raw, propulsive tale of love and grief' Mail on Sunday

A NOVEL OF LOVE AND LOSS FROM BESTSELLING AND PRIZEWINNING AUTHOR JOYCE CAROL OATESAmid a starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape in New Mexico, a married couple from Cambridge, MA takes residency at a distinguished academic institute. When the husband is stricken with a mysterious illness, misdiagnosed at first, their lives are uprooted and husband and wife each embarks upon a nightmare journey. At thirty-seven, Michaela faces the terrifying prospect of widowhood - and the loss of Gerard, whose identity has greatly shaped her own. In vividly depicted scenes of escalating suspense, Michaela cares desperately for Gerard in his final days as she comes to realize that her love for her husband, however fierce and selfless, is not enough to save him and that his death is beyond her comprehension. A love that refuses to be surrendered at death--is this the blessing of a unique married love, or a curse that must be exorcized? Part intimately detailed love story, part horror story rooted in real life, BREATHE is an exploration of hauntedness rooted in the domesticity of marital love, as well as our determination both to be faithful to the beloved and to survive the trauma of loss.

A NOVEL OF LOVE AND LOSS FROM BESTSELLING AND PRIZEWINNING AUTHOR JOYCE CAROL OATESAmid a starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape in New Mexico, a married couple from Cambridge, MA takes residency at a distinguished academic institute. When the husband is stricken with a mysterious illness, misdiagnosed at first, their lives are uprooted and husband and wife each embarks upon a nightmare journey. At thirty-seven, Michaela faces the terrifying prospect of widowhood - and the loss of Gerard, whose identity has greatly shaped her own. In vividly depicted scenes of escalating suspense, Michaela cares desperately for Gerard in his final days as she comes to realize that her love for her husband, however fierce and selfless, is not enough to save him and that his death is beyond her comprehension. A love that refuses to be surrendered at death--is this the blessing of a unique married love, or a curse that must be exorcized? Part intimately detailed love story, part horror story rooted in real life, BREATHE is an exploration of hauntedness rooted in the domesticity of marital love, as well as our determination both to be faithful to the beloved and to survive the trauma of loss.

From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes a brand new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery & suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life--from a woman who gets lost on her drive home to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood. Taken as a whole, the collection forms a poignant tapestry of regular people searching for their place in a social hierarchy, often with devastating and disastrous results. Rendered with stylish, fresh writing from an author who continues to push the envelope, the stories deftly weave in and out of a stream-of-consciousness to reflect the ways we process traumatic experiences and impart that uncertainty and uneasiness to the reader. Originally appearing in publications as disparate as Harper's, Vice, and Conjunctions, the stories comprising Night, Neon showcase Oates' mastery of the suspense story--and her relentless use of the form to conduct unapologetically honest explorations of American identity.

From Joyce Carol Oates, literary icon and author of BLONDE, now a major motion picture, come four psychologically daring and chillingly suspenseful stories where women face threats both past and present. A Pennsylvania academic unearths a terrifying trauma from her past after inheriting a house in Cardiff, Maine from a stranger. A lonely pubescent girl befriends a feral cat that protects her from the increasingly aggressive men that surround her. A brilliant but shy college sophomore realizes she is pregnant and, distraught, allows a distinguished visiting professor to take her under his wing. And a widower remarries, but finds his young bride haunted by his dead wife's voice dancing in the wind.'A stylish, suspenseful quartet of novellas tinged with the supernatural.' Daily MailReviews for Joyce Carol Oates:'A writer of extraordinary strengths.' Guardian 'Oates chillingly depicts the darkness lurking within the everyday.' Sunday Express 'Both haunting and sublime.' Literary Review 'Splendidly chilling.' Financial Times 'Visceral, psychologically involving, and socially astute.' Booklist

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

"Timely, monumental. . . . Yet another piercing examination of American culture by the writer this reviewer considers our country's greatest living novelist. . . . It is brilliant. How blessed we are to have her as a novelist in our chaotic, confusing times. Night is spot on for these times of racial divide, as well as in portraying the fractious family dynamic that many of us know all too well. . . . Night deserves the top spot on your quarantine nightstand. Here's a fervent salute to Oates, our finest American novelist, for this one." -- Star TribuneThe bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society by one of our most enduringly popular and important writersNight Sleep Death The Stars is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, Joyce Carol Oates's latest novel is a vivid exploration of race, psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing, as well as an intimate family novel in the tradition of the author's bestselling We Were the Mulvaneys.

A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five yearsJoyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute social consciousness, one of the most insistent and inspired witnesses of a shared American history. Oates is perhaps best known for her prodigious output of novels and short stories, many of which have become contemporary classics. However, Oates has also always been a faithful writer of poetry. American Melancholy showcases some of her finest work of the last few decades. Covering subjects big and small, and written in an immediate and engaging style, this collection touches on both the personal and political. Loss, love, and memory are investigated, along with the upheavals of our modern age, the reality of our current predicaments, and the ravages of poverty, racism, and social unrest. Oates skillfully writes characters ranging from a former doctor at a Chinese People’s Liberation Army hospital to Little Albert, a six-month-old infant who took part in a famous study that revealed evidence of classical conditioning in human beings.

I Vackra dagar utforskar Joyce Carol Oates sina protagonisters hemliga, intima och dolda inre liv. Människor som, likt de flesta av oss, tvingas stå upp för sig själva genom modiga och ibland oåterkalleliga val. Läsaren får bland annat ta del av Oates rikt sinnliga prosa i berättelsen om det otrogna paret som lovar varandra total uppriktighet och ärlighet, precis det som de saknar i sina äktenskap, vilket får helt andra konsekvenser än de väntat sig. I en annan berättelse, med de frodigt tecknade Adirondackbergen som fond, utnyttjar en beräknande och manipulativ universitetsprofessor en alltför godtrogen kvinna på ett sätt hon aldrig hade kunnat förutse. Och i ännu en novell får läsaren möta en ung afrikansk man som studerar på ett amerikanskt universitet. När han utan förvarning blir av med sitt visum testas hans mod till yttersta gränsen. I Vackra dagar, precis som i Joyce Carol Oates övriga prosa, visar författaren prov på sin fascination för de sociala, psykologiska och moraliska gränser som styr våra handlingar - till den avgörande tidpunkt då de inte längre gör det. "Helt otrolig!", Titti Schultz i Go'kväll "Hennes knivskarpa sätt att analysera människor och komma dem inpå livet, att ta fram deras själs hemligheter, som de ofta inte själva vet om, är ett genomgående tema i flera av novellerna. (...) Suveränt bra läsning!" Helhetsbetyg: 5, Inger Ulfstedt-Fjellsson, BTJ-häftet JOYCE CAROL OATES, född 1938 i staten New York, är en av USA:s verkligt betydande författare. Oates har sedan debuten 1963 publicerat ett stort antal romaner, novellsamlingar, skådespel, essäer, poesi och kritik. Framför allt inom prosan har Oates utmärkt sig som en av de största inom den samtida amerikanska litteraturen och hon har tilldelats en rad utmärkelser och priser, samt nominerats till Pulitzerpriset. Romanen Blond nominerades till National Book Award, och bästsäljaren Fallen tilldelades Prix Femina 2005. Oates är verksam vid Princeton University och har varit medlem av American Academy of Arts and Letters sedan 1978.

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. An accomplished writer returns to her childhood home of Yewville, but the homecoming stirs troubled thoughts about the person she might have been if she’d never left. A man in prison contemplates the gravity of his irreversible act. A student’s affair with a professor results in a pregnancy that alters the course of her life forever. Even the experience of reading is investigated as one that can create a profound transformation: “You could enter another time, the time of the book.” The (Other) You is an arresting and incisive vision into these alternative realities, a collection that ponders the constraints we all face given the circumstances of our birth and our temperaments, and that examines the competing pressures and expectations on women in particular. Finely attuned to the nuances of our social and psychic selves, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates here why she remains one of our most celebrated and relevant literary figures.

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. An accomplished writer returns to her childhood home of Yewville, but the homecoming stirs troubled thoughts about the person she might have been if she'd never left. A man in prison contemplates the gravity of his irreversible act. A student's affair with a professor results in a pregnancy that alters the course of her life forever. Even the experience of reading is investigated as one that can create a profound transformation: "You could enter another time, the time of the book." The (Other) You is an arresting and incisive vision into these alternative realities, a collection that ponders the constraints we all face given the circumstances of our birth and our temperaments, and that examines the competing pressures and expectations on women in particular. Finely attuned to the nuances of our social and psychic selves, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates here why she remains one of our most celebrated and relevant literary figures.

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. An accomplished writer returns to her childhood home of Yewville, but the homecoming stirs troubled thoughts about the person she might have been if she'd never left. A man in prison contemplates the gravity of his irreversible act. A student's affair with a professor results in a pregnancy that alters the course of her life forever. Even the experience of reading is investigated as one that can create a profound transformation: "You could enter another time, the time of the book." The (Other) You is an arresting and incisive vision into these alternative realities, a collection that ponders the constraints we all face given the circumstances of our birth and our temperaments, and that examines the competing pressures and expectations on women in particular. Finely attuned to the nuances of our social and psychic selves, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates here why she remains one of our most celebrated and relevant literary figures.

A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five years Joyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute social consciousness, one of the most insistent and inspired witnesses of a shared American history. Oates is perhaps best known for her prodigious output of novels and short stories, many of which have become contemporary classics. However, Oates has also always been a faithful writer of poetry. American Melancholy showcases some of her finest work of the last few decades. Covering subjects big and small, and written in an immediate and engaging style, this collection touches on both the personal and political. Loss, love, and memory are investigated, along with the upheavals of our modern age, the reality of our current predicaments, and the ravages of poverty, racism, and social unrest. Oates skillfully writes characters ranging from a former doctor at a Chinese People's Liberation Army hospital to Little Albert, a six-month-old infant who took part in a famous study that revealed evidence of classical conditioning in human beings.

A new collection of poetry from an American literary legend, her first in twenty-five years Joyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute social consciousness, one of the most insistent and inspired witnesses of a shared American history. Oates is perhaps best known for her prodigious output of novels and short stories, many of which have become contemporary classics. However, Oates has also always been a faithful writer of poetry. American Melancholy showcases some of her finest work of the last few decades. Covering subjects big and small, and written in an immediate and engaging style, this collection touches on both the personal and political. Loss, love, and memory are investigated, along with the upheavals of our modern age, the reality of our current predicaments, and the ravages of poverty, racism, and social unrest. Oates skillfully writes characters ranging from a former doctor at a Chinese People's Liberation Army hospital to Little Albert, a six-month-old infant who took part in a famous study that revealed evidence of classical conditioning in human beings.