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Soul at the White Heat: Inspiration, Obsession, and the Writing Life by Joyce Carol Oates
$27.99 AUD
Category: On Writing
A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, now in paperback."Why do we write?"With this question, Joyce Carol Oates begins an imaginative exploration of the writing life ...Show more
Soul at the White Heat: Inspiration, Obsession, and the Writing Life by Professor of Humanities Joyce Carol Oates (Princeton University)
$50.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates."Why do we write?"With this question, Joyce Carol Oates begins an imaginative exploration of the writing life, and all its atte ...Show more
The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This eerie tale of psychological horror sees the real inhabitants of turn-of-the-century Princeton fall under the influence of a supernatural power. New Jersey, 1905: soon-to-be commander-in-chief Woodrow Wilson is president of Princeton University. On a nearby farm, Socialist author Upton Sinclair, enj ...Show more
The Corn Maiden: And Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
One day an 11-year-old girl disappears. She was playing with friends from school. The crop is strengthened by her blood...Marissa is an innocent girl, with hair the colour of corn-silk. She does not hold others in strange thrall, as some young women do, she obeys her parents, she does not stay late afte ...Show more
The Corn Maiden: And Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the towering imagination of literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes an unbearably taut tale combining folklore, adolescent insecurity and blood sacrifice, and six other, nightmarish, stories. Twice nominated for the Nobel Prize, Joyce Carol Oates presents an unbearably taut and terrifying tale combi ...Show more
The Falls - A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A stunning, major achievement from Joyce Carol Oates, one of the great artistic forces of our time (The Nation). A haunting story of the powerful spell Niagara Falls casts upon two generations of a family, leading to tragedy, love, loss, and, ultimately, redemption.A man climbs over the railings and plu ...Show more
The Female of the Species by Joyce Carol Oates
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A young wife is home alone when the phone rings in "So Help Me God." Is the strange voice flirting with her from the other end of the line her jealous husband laying a trap, or a stranger who knows entirely too much about her? In "Madison at Guignol", an unhappy fashionista discovers a secret door insid ...Show more
The Journal Of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973 - 1982 by Joyce Carol Oates
$35.00 AUD
Category: Literary
When her journals began, 34-year-old Oates was already a recipient of the National Book Award (1969), with many O. Henry awards, and others, under her literary belt. For all her warm critical reception, however, the author had been (and would remain) fairly reticent about the personal details of her lif ...Show more
The (Other) You: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
$33.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 accomplis ...Show more
The (Other) You: Stories *US Ed. by Joyce Carol Oates
$50.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we'd chosen a different path, from a master of the short story In 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 accompli ...Show more
The Triumph of the Spider Monkey by Joyce Carol Oates
$17.00 AUD
Category: Crime
Unavailable for 40 years, this seminal novel of madness and murder is acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates' powerful trip into the mind of a maniac. Abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, shuttled from one abusive foster home and detention center to another, Bobbie Gotteson grew up angry, hurtin ...Show more
We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Oprah's Book Club (Paperback)
A masterful novel about a violent crime and its reverberations throughout a community - as timely and relevant in 2019 as it was when first published in 2001 'We were the Mulvaneys, remember us? For a long time you envied us, then you pitied us. For a long time you admired us, then you thought Good! th ...Show more