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A gripping and moving collection of stories by Joyce Carol Oates, which re-imagines the meaning of loss--often through violent means. and which the New York Times praised as a dazzling collection that is intensely truthful and viscerally unsettling.

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" Oates is a fearless writer." -Los Angeles Times "Oates is a master of the dark tale-stories of the hunted and the hunter, of violence, trauma, and deep psychic wounds." -Booklist (starred review) Sourland is a gripping, haunting, and intensely moving collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates, one of America´s preeminent authors. Unforgettable tales that re-imagine the meaning of loss-often through violent means-Sourland is yet another extraordinary read from the literary icon who has previously brought us The Gravedigger´s Daughter, Blonde, We Were the Mulvaneys, and numerous other classic works of contemporary fiction.

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"Making sense of life in a cataclysmic inner and outer landscape has been Joyce Carol Oates´ obsession for five decades. This evocative new collection shows just how much sense she can make of it now." Chicago Tribune

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Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

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