Cardiff, by the Sea

Beschreibung

From Joyce Carol Oates, literary icon and author of BLONDE, now a major motion picture, come four psychologically daring and chillingly suspenseful stories where women face threats both past and present.<BR><BR>A Pennsylvania academic unearths a terrifying trauma from her past after inheriting a house in Cardiff, Maine from a stranger. A lonely pubescent girl befriends a feral cat that protects her from the increasingly aggressive men that surround her.<BR><BR>A brilliant but shy college sophomore realizes she is pregnant and, distraught, allows a distinguished visiting professor to take her under his wing.

And a widower remarries, but finds his young bride haunted by his dead wife's voice dancing in the wind.<BR><BR>'A stylish, suspenseful quartet of novellas tinged with the supernatural.' Daily Mail<BR><BR>Reviews for Joyce Carol Oates:<BR><BR>'A writer of extraordinary strengths.' Guardian <BR>'Oates chillingly depicts the darkness lurking within the everyday.' Sunday Express <BR>'Both haunting and sublime.' Literary Review <BR>'Splendidly chilling.' Financial Times <BR>'Visceral, psychologically involving, and socially astute.' Booklist

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