NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 15, 2011
"Oates continues to keep her readers guessing at her next thrilling effort."
A wildly unhinged, deeply intimate look at the eminent author's "derangement of Widowhood."
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 7, 2011
"Nothing to burnish Oates's reputation, but reliable chills for fans familiar with the product (Sourland, 2010, etc.)."
Ten reprinted stories--six from literary quarterlies, four from mystery venues--that use contemporary gothic horror to shed light on the principals' festering family wounds.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 14, 2010
"Oates being Oates. Let the reader beware."
NONFICTION
Released: June 29, 2010
"A top-notch literary talent invites readers to find new inspiration in these works, and in her own."
A poignant, nostalgic collection of literary criticism by one of America's premier authors, gathered in the aftermath of her husband's recent death.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 6, 2010
"Oates at her most restrained and hence best. This one almost makes up for the ludicrous overkill of My Sister, My Love (2008). Almost."
A patient act of seduction has curiously appropriate mythic resonance in this brisk novella.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 15, 2009
"One-half of a masterpiece."
Typically overstuffed chronicle of sexual violence and family implosion, closest in kinship within the author's family of novels to
We Were the Mulvaneys (1996) and
You Must Remember This (1987).
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