Give Me Your Heart by Joyce Carol Oates
A superb collection of taut and unsettling stories from one of America's literary giants
Oates can tell a story in one liquid throw, like a cowgirl uncoiling a rope.. A born writer, silky fluent and intimate * Sunday Times *
Suspense fiction is like a powerful drug: one page, one taste, can induce such a tingly, speedy feeling that it takes an almost superhuman effort not to finish everything off in just one sitting. At least that is how it is with Joyce Carol Oates... you cannot put [her] book down * New York Times Book Review *
Joyce Carol Oates is a genius * Guardian *
Violence forever simmers beneath the surface of [Oates's] fiction... few American writers can match her for unsettling intensity and insight. * Sunday Times *
As ever, Oates shows a perfect ear for everyday speech and the longings of people who might never have a chance.' * Scotsman *
Her prose is peerless.. few writers move so effortlessly from the Gothic tale to the psychological thriller to the epic family saga to the lyrical novella. Even fewer authors can so compellingly and entertainingly tell a story * Scotland on Sunday *
This latest collection of stories leads us deeper into the chambers of Oates's sinister mind... Give Me Your Heart is electrifying in its range and its sizzling nastiness. * Scottish Sunday Herald *
Unsettling? Yes. Brilliant? Undeniably. * DIVA *
Powerful narratives... further evidence, as if it were needed, of the tremendous versatility of this author. * Daily Mail *
Suspense fiction is like a powerful drug: one page, one taste, can induce such a tingly, speedy feeling that it takes an almost superhuman effort not to finish everything off in just one sitting. At least that is how it is with Joyce Carol Oates... you cannot put [her] book down * New York Times Book Review *
Joyce Carol Oates is a genius * Guardian *
Violence forever simmers beneath the surface of [Oates's] fiction... few American writers can match her for unsettling intensity and insight. * Sunday Times *
As ever, Oates shows a perfect ear for everyday speech and the longings of people who might never have a chance.' * Scotsman *
Her prose is peerless.. few writers move so effortlessly from the Gothic tale to the psychological thriller to the epic family saga to the lyrical novella. Even fewer authors can so compellingly and entertainingly tell a story * Scotland on Sunday *
This latest collection of stories leads us deeper into the chambers of Oates's sinister mind... Give Me Your Heart is electrifying in its range and its sizzling nastiness. * Scottish Sunday Herald *
Unsettling? Yes. Brilliant? Undeniably. * DIVA *
Powerful narratives... further evidence, as if it were needed, of the tremendous versatility of this author. * Daily Mail *
An American literary giant, Joyce Carol Oates is the author of over 70 works and the winner of a host of prizes including the National Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the Commonwealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature, and the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement. She also has been nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University. She lives in New Jersey.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781848875647 |
| ISBN 10 | 1848875649 |
| Title | Give Me Your Heart |
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Atlantic Books |
| Year published | 2011-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
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