Carthage by Joyce Carol Oates
A young girls disappearance rocks a community and a family, in this stirring examination of grief, faith, justice and the atrocities of war, from literary legend Joyce Carol Oates.`The ever-prolific Joyce Carol Oates is at the top of her game in this suspense-filled thriller … about guilt, punishment and forgiveness’ Financial Times
`A substantial book that deals with truths of the type that we often do not want to confront … Oates is an ambitious writer of huge confidence … The characters … are brilliantly drawn … but what keeps you going is the writing … Oates writes about America’s big themesHer prose is elegant. She is the mistress of all she surveys’ The Times
`”Carthage” is not just the suspense thriller it had seemed at first sight … what it attains is a profound and poignant vision of American guilt, and its potential for some kind of absolution’ John Burnside, Guardian
`A gripping exploration of a community in crisis after a young girl disappears’ Stella Magazine, Sunday Telegraph
`The prolific Joyce Carol Oates is back doing what she does best – exposing the darkness of the human heart' Good Housekeeping
`Joyce Carol Oates is … a rare example of a prolific author who has managed to maintain her reputation as a serious literary novelist … “Carthage” is an immensely proficient novel, with careful and elegant prose, and interesting experiments with form … an intriguing and unpredictable read. Oates succeeds in portraying the complex damage done to the fabric of a society by war – no matter how far away it is’ Frances Perraudin, Observer
`Her characters are created with a Dickensian sharpness of detail, and their relationships with one another are often involving; her language is rough-hewn and lovely; her plots are suspenseful and artfully made … Her new novel is her most substantial in some time’ Edmund Gordon, Sunday Times
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including `We Were the Mulvaneys’, which was an Oprah Book Club Choice, and `Blonde’, which was nominated for the National Book Award. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780007485741 |
| ISBN 10 | 0007485743 |
| Title | Carthage |
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2014-01-21 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
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