Joyce Carol Oates

Hva veier tyngst: Å være lojal mot familien eller å gjøre det som er moralsk riktig? I "Mitt liv som rotte" følger vi Violet Rue Kerrigan, en ung kvinne som ser tilbake på et liv i eksil fra familien. Da hun i en alder av tolv oppdager at brødrene har begått en alvorlig forbrytelse, dras hun mellom sin rettferdighetssans og lojaliteten mot familien. Avgjørelsen hun tar, forandrer livet hennes for alltid. Gjennom en serie hendelser betrakter Violet omstendighetene som gjør at hun går fra å være det høyt elskede yngste barnet i ungeflokken på sju, til å bli tysteren og "rotta" som angir sine egne brødre og sørger for at de blir arrestert og dømt. Oates' nye roman tar for seg temaer som rasisme, kvinne hat, familie, lojalitet, seksualitet og identitet. Violets fortvilte kamp for å bryte familieforbannelsen og finne sin egen identitet på utsiden av familien, skildres med melankoli og kraft.

Showcasing stories from some of the comics' greatest female creators, this anthology features stories that range from mainstream adventures to hilarious comic shorts to heart-wrenching autobiographical stories. Originally published as Sexy Chix in 2006, this new edition is presented in a larger, comic book size format. Featuring over a dozen stories by top talents like New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, Eisner Award-winning illustrator Jill Thompson, Scary Godmother creator Colleen Doran, DC Comics creators Gail Simone and Jo lle Jones, and many more

As a child, Abby had the same recurring nightmare night after night, in which she wandered through a field ridden with human skulls and bones. Now an adult, Abby thinks she's outgrown her demons, until, the evening before her wedding, the terrible dream returns and forces her to confront the dark secrets from her past she has kept from her new husband, Willem. The following day--less than 24 hours after exchanging vows--Abby steps out into traffic. As his wife lies in her hospital bed, sleeping in fits and starts, Willem tries to determine whether this was an absentminded accident or a premeditated plunge, and he quickly discovers a mysterious set of clues about what his wife might be hiding. Why, for example is there a rash-like red mark circling her wrist? What does she dream about that causes her to wake from the sound of her own screams? Slowly, Abby begins to open up to her husband, revealing to him what she has never shared with anyone before--the story of a terrified mother; a jealous, drug addled father; and a daughter's terrifying captivity. With a suspenseful, alternating narrative that travels between the present and Abby's tortured childhood, The Pursuit is a meticulously crafted, deeply disquieting tale that showcases Oates's masterful storytelling.

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-häftetJOYCE 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.

From one of the most important contemporary American writers, Cardiff, by the Sea is a bold, haunting collection of four previously unpublished novellas. 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.

När tolvåriga Violet Rue råkar höra sina bröder prata om hur de begått ett fruktansvärt brott slits hon mellan att vara lojal med sin familj och att berätta sanningen. Ensam i världen tvingas hon bryta sig fri från sina föreställningar om vad en familj är.

An eerie, psychological thriller about a newlywed wife haunted by her secret, traumatic past.

The 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 writers. Night 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.

The 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 writers. Night 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.

"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.

Som barn plågas Abby av en återkommande mardröm: hon går över ett fält där benknotor skymtar i gräset. I vuxen ålder inbillar hon sig att de nattliga fasorna har släppt taget, men kvällen före hennes bröllop gör de sig påminda igen. Abby inser att hon måste konfrontera de mörka hemligheter som hon har dolt för sin blivande make, Willem. Kort därefter råkar hon ut för en svår olycka. Medan Abby svävar mellan liv och död i sjukhussängen försöker Willem förstå vad som har hänt och varför. Han lägger ledtråd till ledtråd och närmar sig långsamt den skakande sanningen om Abbys förflutna.” Jagad” är en lika otäck som spännande roman där Joyce Carol Oates visar upp sin mästerliga förmåga att borra i det mänskliga psyket.

A brilliant and thought-provoking novel about family, loyalty and betrayal

"A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant. You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs?" --Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a RatWhich should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one's family ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it? My Life as a Rat follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers. In a succession of vividly recalled episodes Violet contemplates the circumstances of her life as the initially beloved youngest child of seven Kerrigan children who inadvertently "informs" on her brothers, setting into motion their arrests and convictions and her own long estrangement. Arresting and poignant, My Life as a Rat traces a life of banishment from a family--banishment from parents, siblings, and the Church--that forces Violet to discover her own identity, to break the powerful spell of family, and to emerge from her long exile as a "rat" into a transformed life.

The National Book Award finalist and national bestseller exploring the life and legend of Marilyn MonroeNow a Netflix Film starring Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne NicholsonIn one of her most ambitious works, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker--the child, the woman, the fated celebrity, and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice startlingly intimate and rich, Norma Jeane tells her own story of an emblematic American artist--intensely conflicted and driven--who had lost her way. A powerful portrait of Hollywood's myth and an extraordinary woman's heartbreaking reality, Blonde is a sweeping epic that pays tribute to the elusive magic and devastation behind the creation of the great 20th-century American star.

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

New York Times Bestselling AuthorFinally returned to print, a haunting gothic tale that illuminates the fortunes and misfortunes of a 19th-century immigrant family of confidence artists--a story of morality, duplicity, and retribution that explores the depths of human manipulation and vulnerability "Oates . . . rarely falters throughout this epic. . . . An American tragedy."--People"My Heart Laid Bare shows Oates at her most playful, extravagant and inventive."--The San Francisco ChronicleThe patriarch of the Licht family, Abraham has raised a brood of talented con artists, children molded in his image, and experts in The Game, his calling and philosophy of life. Traveling from one small town to the next across the continent, from the Northeast to the frontier West, they skillfully swindle unsuspecting victims, playing on their greed, lust, pride, and small-mindedness. Despite their success, Abraham cannot banish a past that haunts him: the ghost of his ancestor Sarah Licht, a former con woman who met with a gruesome fate. As Abraham moves his family from town to town, involving them in more and more complex and impressive schemes, he finds himself caught between the specter of Sarah and the growing terrors of his present. As his carefully crafted lies and schemes begin to fracture and disintegrate before his eyes, Abraham discovers that the bond of family is as tenuous and treacherous as the tricks he perpetrates upon unsuspecting strangers.

New York Times Bestselling AuthorFinally returned to print, a haunting gothic tale that illuminates the fortunes and misfortunes of a 19th-century immigrant family of confidence artists--a story of morality, duplicity, and retribution that explores the depths of human manipulation and vulnerability "Oates . . . rarely falters throughout this epic. . . . An American tragedy."--People"My Heart Laid Bare shows Oates at her most playful, extravagant and inventive."--The San Francisco ChronicleThe patriarch of the Licht family, Abraham has raised a brood of talented con artists, children molded in his image, and experts in The Game, his calling and philosophy of life. Traveling from one small town to the next across the continent, from the Northeast to the frontier West, they skillfully swindle unsuspecting victims, playing on their greed, lust, pride, and small-mindedness. Despite their success, Abraham cannot banish a past that haunts him: the ghost of his ancestor Sarah Licht, a former con woman who met with a gruesome fate. As Abraham moves his family from town to town, involving them in more and more complex and impressive schemes, he finds himself caught between the specter of Sarah and the growing terrors of his present. As his carefully crafted lies and schemes begin to fracture and disintegrate before his eyes, Abraham discovers that the bond of family is as tenuous and treacherous as the tricks he perpetrates upon unsuspecting strangers.

A deeply intimate psychological portrait of a young woman's tragic childhood, her reinvention as a successful young artist in the literary circles of 1950s New York City, and her struggle to understand and overcome the trauma of her past. Growing up in the confines of Innisfail, a bleak town in upstate New York, bright and curious Marya endures abandonment, betrayal, and loneliness. A college scholarship offers escape, taking her to New York City, where she makes a name for herself in academic and literary circles. But success cannot overcome the damage of her childhood, pain that haunts Marya's personal, professional, and romantic relationships, and has left her unmoored. Psychologically nuanced, rich in insight and emotional complexity, told with the unsettling power of Joyce Carol Oates's gothic novels, Marya: A Life is an intense look into the psyche of a young woman and an illuminating exploration of how the past reverberates throughout our lives.

New York Times Bestselling AuthorFinally returned to print, a haunting gothic tale that illuminates the fortunes and misfortunes of a 19th-century immigrant family of confidence artists--a story of morality, duplicity, and retribution that explores the depths of human manipulation and vulnerability "Oates . . . rarely falters throughout this epic. . . . An American tragedy."--People"My Heart Laid Bare shows Oates at her most playful, extravagant and inventive."--The San Francisco ChronicleThe patriarch of the Licht family, Abraham has raised a brood of talented con artists, children molded in his image, and experts in The Game, his calling and philosophy of life. Traveling from one small town to the next across the continent, from the Northeast to the frontier West, they skillfully swindle unsuspecting victims, playing on their greed, lust, pride, and small-mindedness. Despite their success, Abraham cannot banish a past that haunts him: the ghost of his ancestor Sarah Licht, a former con woman who met with a gruesome fate. As Abraham moves his family from town to town, involving them in more and more complex and impressive schemes, he finds himself caught between the specter of Sarah and the growing terrors of his present. As his carefully crafted lies and schemes begin to fracture and disintegrate before his eyes, Abraham discovers that the bond of family is as tenuous and treacherous as the tricks he perpetrates upon unsuspecting strangers.