Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense Main Edition
Author(s): Joyce Carol Oates (Author)
Publisher: Corvus
Publication Date: 1 Jan. 2011
Edition: Main
Language: English
Print length: 368 pages
ISBN-10: 1848875649
ISBN-13: 9781848875647
Book Description
In the chilling world of Give Me Your Heart, the need for love is obsessive, self-destructive and unpredictable. It takes us to forbidden places, confronts us with gruesome truths, and leads us beyond our control. In the unsettling ‘Strip Poker,’ a reckless teenage girl must turn the tables on a group of threatening young men. Can she outplay them? In the award-winning ‘Smother!’ a daughter’s nightmarish childhood memory brings trouble to the door of her bourgeois mother. Which of them will win? In ‘The First Husband,’ a jealous man discovers his wife lied about her first marriage, and plans a cruel revenge. Will he go through with it? In these and other powerful tales, children move beyond their parents’ reach, wives and husbands wake up as strangers, haunted pasts intrude upon uncertain futures, and lives hang in the balance. In ten razor-sharp stories, National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates shows that the most deadly mysteries often begin at home.
Editorial Reviews
Review
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
About the Author
Joyce Carol Oates, a National Book Award winner, is the author of numerous works of fiction including We Were the Mulvaneys which was an Oprah Book Club Choice and Blonde which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Her books have been translated into many languages and her short stories widely anthologized. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. Atlantic Books published Rape: A Love Story in 2005.
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