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Genre/Form: | Short stories Thrillers (Fiction) Mystery fiction Domestic fiction Detective and mystery stories Fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Joyce Carol Oates |
ISBN: | 9780547385464 0547385463 |
OCLC Number: | 505420667 |
Description: | 260 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Give me your heart -- Split/brain -- The first husband -- Strip poker -- Smother -- Tetanus -- The spill -- Nowhere -- Bleeed -- Vena cava. |
Responsibility: | Joyce Carol Oates. |
Abstract:
A new collection of stories by National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates. In the suspenseful "Strip Poker," a reckless adolescent girl must find a way of turning the tables on a gathering of increasingly threatening young men. Can she outplay them? In the award-winning "Smother!" a young woman's nightmare memory of childhood brings trouble on her professor-mother. Which of them will win? In "Split/Brain" a woman who has blundered into a lethal situation confronts the possibility of saving herself. Will she take it? In "The First Husband," a jealous man discovers that his wife seems to have lied about her first marriage, and exacts a cruel revenge, years after the fact. In these and other powerful tales, children veer beyond their parents' control, wives and husbands wake up to find that they hardly know each other, haunted pasts intrude upon uncertain futures, and those who bring us the most harm may be the nearest at hand.
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