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9780156030274

Female of the Species Tales of Mystery And Suspense

Female of the Species Tales of Mystery And Suspense
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  • ISBN-13: 9780156030274
  • ISBN: 0156030276
  • Publication Date: 2007
  • Publisher: Harcourt

AUTHOR

Oates, Joyce Carol, Penzler, Otto

SUMMARY

ANew York TimesEditors' Choice "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's how it is with Joyce Carol Oates's new collection."The New York Times Book Review A young wife is home alone when the phone rings in "So Help Me God." Is the strange voice flirting with her from the other end of the line her jealous husband laying a trap, or a stranger who knows entirely too much about her? In "Madison at Guignol" an unhappy fashionista discovers a secret door inside her favorite clothing store and insists the staff let her enter. But even her fevered imagination cannot anticipate the horror they have been hiding from her. In these and other gripping and disturbing tales, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates why the females of the speciesbe they six-year-old girls, seemingly devoted wives, or aging mothersare by nature more deadly than the males. "As ever, Oates shocks, delights and amuses because she's so good at what she does."The Baltimore Sun "With the protagonists inThe Female of the Species, [Oates is] at the top of her form . . . Nobody does that kind of well-written spookiness quite like Oates."St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joyce Carol Oatesis the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and the winner of the National Book Award. Among her major works areWe Were the Mulvaneys,Blonde, andThe Falls. She lives in New Jersey. An Otto Penzler BookOates, Joyce Carol is the author of 'Female of the Species Tales of Mystery And Suspense', published 2007 under ISBN 9780156030274 and ISBN 0156030276.

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