Joyce Carol Oates
An acclaimed American novelist, short story writer and poet, Joyce Carol Oates was born in Lockport, New York and began writing fiction early, winning an award for her writing in her teens and publishing her first collection of short stories shortly after graduating from university. Her works include the novels We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award, The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina, A Book of American Martyrs as well as What I Lived for, Black Water, The Wheel of Love and Them, all of which were nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
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Breathe is an exploration of haunting, a horror story about the raw madness of grief, and an intense, heart-wrenching love story that grapples with the philosophical questions most fundamental to our existence.
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From one of America's most renowned storytellers comes a novel about love and deceit, and lust and redemption, against a background of child abductions in the affluent suburbs of Detroit.
Novels by Joyce Carol Oates
Short Stories, Poetry and Works of Non-Fiction by Joyce Carol Oates
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