Description |
402 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Cardiff, by the sea -- Miao Dao -- Phantomwise: 1972 -- The surviving child. |
Summary |
"From one of the most important contemporary American writers, Cardiff, by the Sea is a bold, haunting collection of four previously unpublished novellas. Starting with the title novella-in which a romantic-minded young art historian is led to (re)discover a terrifying trauma after inheriting property in faraway Cardiff, Maine-through to "The Surviving Child"-which finds the young new wife of a famous poet's widow haunted by the dead poet's voice dancing in the wind, an inexplicably befouled well, and a compulsive draw to the same garage that already took two lives-Cardiff, by the Sea is ceaselessly sinister. In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful novellas, Joyce Carol Oates writes about women facing threats past and present"-- Provided by publisher. |
Subject |
Women -- Fiction.
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Maine -- Fiction.
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Genre |
Suspense fiction.
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Novellas.
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Added Author |
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Cardiff, by the sea.
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Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Miao Dao.
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Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Phantomwise: 1972.
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Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
Surviving child.
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ISBN |
9780802157997 (hardcover) |
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