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Seven feverishly unsettling works from one of our greatest literary imaginations.

Seven feverishly unsettling works, confronting the dangers that surround us and the dangers that lurk within.

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Seven unsettling works from one of our greatest literary imaginations.

A precocious eleven-year-old, in thrall to the mysterious black sheep of the family, climbs into his sky-blue Chevy to be driven to an uncertain, unforgettable, fate.

A university student becomes obsessed with the murder of a female classmate as her own sense of self deteriorates.

A recent widow grieves inside her lakefront home and fantasizes about transforming into a great flying predator - unerring and pitiless in the hunt.

These meticulously crafted, deeply disquieting stories confront the dangers that surround us, and the dangers that lurk within.

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Dis mem ber

The Crawl Space

Heartbreak

The Drowned Girl

The Situations

Great Blue Heron

Welcome to Friendly Skies!

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´As usual with Oates, it is horribly readable, but driven by something disturbingly like genuine misanthropy´ Sunday Times .

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Oates, Joyce Carol
Joyce Carol Oates is the author of over 70 books and the winner of a host of prizes including the National Book Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Oates is Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University.

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