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A Widow's Story A Memoir
[Paperback]Author(s):Joyce Carol Oates'My husband died, my life collapsed.' -
Give Me Your Heart Tales of Mystery and Suspense
[Paperback]Author(s):Joyce Carol OatesA superb collection of taut and unsettling stories from one of America's literary giants -
Sourland
[Paperback]Author(s):Joyce Carol OatesMaps the surprising contours of ordinary life, exploring how the power of violence, loss, and grief shape both the psyche and the soul. -
A Widow's Story: A Memoir A Memoir
[Paperback]Author(s):Joyce Carol Oates"My husband died, my life collapsed." On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond Smith, to the emergency room of the Princeton Medical Center where he was diagnosed with pneumonia. Both Joyce and Ray expected him to be released in a day or two. But in less than a week, even as Joyce was preparing for his discharge, Ray was dead from a hospital-acquired virulent infection, and Joyce was suddenly faced -- totally unprepared -- with the reality of widowhood. A Widow's Story illuminates one woman's struggle to comprehend a life absent of the partnership that had sustained and defined her for nearly half a century. Joyce Carol Oates shares the derangement of denial, the anguish of loss, the disorientation of the survivor amid a nightmare of "death duties," and the solace of friendship. She writes unflinchingly of the experience of grief -- the almost unbearable suspense of the hospital vigil, the treacherous "pools" of memory that surround us, the vocabulary of illness, the absurdities of commercialized forms of mourning. Here is a frank acknowledgment of the widow's desperation -- only gradually yielding to the recognition that "this is my life now." Enlivened by the piercing vision, acute perception and mordant humour that are the hallmarks of the work of Joyce Carol Oates, this is a extremely moving tale of life and death, love and grief. -
A Widow's Story A Memoir
[Hardback]Author(s):Joyce Carol Oates"My husband died, my life collapsed." -
Little Bird of Heaven
[Paperback]Author(s):Joyce Carol Oates'A writer of extraordinary strengths' Guardian -
A Fair Maiden A Dark Novel of Suspense
[Paperback]Author(s):Joyce Carol OatesA short, gripping suspense novel in which an elderly aristocrat becomes obsessed with a young girl. -
My Sister My Love
[Paperback]Author(s):Joyce Carol OatesA dark, wry, captivating tale, inspired by an unsolved American true crime mystery. -
Dear Husband Stories
[Paperback]Author(s):Joyce Carol OatesExamines the intimate lives of contemporary: the tangled ties between generations, the desperation - and the covert, radiant happiness - of loving more than one is loved in return. This title presents the true-crime story of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who drowned her children in 2001. -
Wild Nights! Stories About the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway
[Paperback]Author(s):Joyce Carol OatesThrough the words of his own 'diary', this title shows how Poe succumbs to existential loneliness during a sociological experiment in an isolated lighthouse, stranded for a year with no companion but his faithful dog. It also includes stories about Dickinson; Samuel Clemens (Twain); Henry James; and Papa Hemingway.
