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Freedom - Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Paperback): Amnesty International USA Freedom - Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Paperback)
Amnesty International USA; Foreword by Desmond Tutu; Contributions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Paulo Coelho, Joyce Carol Oates
R605 R511 Discovery Miles 5 110 Save R94 (16%) In Stock

Sixty years ago, the United Nations took a moral stand against human rights crimes and adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a proclamation of thirty rights that belong to us all, starting memorably with Article 1: "All human beings are born free and equal."
Now, an array of internationally acclaimed writers have chosen one of the thirty rights as the inspiration for a short story. Published in association with Amnesty International, the result is a mix of thoughtful, serious, funny, and thrilling stories that harness the power of literature to celebrate--and affirm--our shared humanity.

The Sacrifice (Paperback): Joyce Carol Oates The Sacrifice (Paperback)
Joyce Carol Oates
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Middle Age - A Romance (Paperback): Joyce Carol Oates Middle Age - A Romance (Paperback)
Joyce Carol Oates
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R335 Discovery Miles 3 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A tender, hilarious novel about contemporary America. With 'Middle Age' Joyce Carol Oates has been acclaimed as one of the most important writers of her time. Salthill-on-Hudson is half an hour outside New York, a place where the inhabitants are beautiful, rich and, though they look younger than they really are, middle-aged. When the enigmatic sculptor Adam Berendt dies suddenly, his death sends shock waves through the town. His loss and rumours of Adam's possible lovers force the community to re-evaluate their lives. Adam's lawyer, Roger Cavanagh, who has broken the law for Adam's sake, becomes involved with an elusive and perhaps treacherous young woman. Marina Troy exiles herself to fulfil a wish Adam had made for her. Lionel sets out, unwisely but with great hope, to re capture his youth lost after a lifetime of financial success, even as his wife Camille discovers an unspeakable joy close to home. Augusta Cutler, a hitherto sensuous, unreflective woman, sets out defiantly to solve the mystery of Adam's origins. 'Middle Age' is an intimately drawn group portrait and a richly sympathetic yet unsparingly comic portrait of present-day affluent America from one of the finest writers of contemporary fiction.

Breathe (Paperback): Joyce Carol Oates Breathe (Paperback)
Joyce Carol Oates
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R495 R416 Discovery Miles 4 160 Save R79 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Carthage (Paperback): Joyce Carol Oates Carthage (Paperback)
Joyce Carol Oates
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R446 R381 Discovery Miles 3 810 Save R65 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Marya: A Life (Paperback): Joyce Carol Oates Marya: A Life (Paperback)
Joyce Carol Oates
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R377 R318 Discovery Miles 3 180 Save R59 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Marya Knauer is a famous author and member of the intellectual elite. She is, by turns, admired, envied, and resented. She is also a woman haunted. Haunted by early memories of violence and abandonment. Haunted by painful feelings of longing and loss. Now Marya is about to embark on a search for her past--and for the mother who gave her away more than a quarter of a century before.... Vividly evoking the beauty of rural New York, the shattered reflections of childhood, and the complex emotions of a female artist, Marya: A Life is one of Joyce Carol Oates's most deeply personal and brilliantly observed novels.

Mudwoman (Paperback): Joyce Carol Oates Mudwoman (Paperback)
Joyce Carol Oates
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R395 R338 Discovery Miles 3 380 Save R57 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Mudgirl is a child abandoned in the silty flats of the Black Snake River. Cast aside, Mudgirl survives by an accident of fate--or destiny. After her rescue, the well-meaning couple who adopt Mudgirl quarantine her poisonous history behind the barrier of their middle-class values. But the bulwark of the present proves surprisingly vulnerable to the agents of the past.

Meredith "M.R." Neukirchen is the first woman president of an Ivy League university. Her commitment to her career and moral fervor for her role are all-consuming, but when confronted with challenges to her leadership she could not have anticipated, the fierce idealism and intelligence that delivered her from a more conventional life threaten to undo her.

A reckless trip thrusts M.R. into an unexpected psychic collision with Mudgirl and the life M.R. believes she has left behind. A powerful exploration of the enduring claims of the past, Mudwoman is at once a psychic ghost story and an intimate and compelling portrait of a highly complex contemporary woman cracking the glass ceiling at enormous personal cost.

Missing Mom (Paperback): Joyce Carol Oates Missing Mom (Paperback)
Joyce Carol Oates
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R407 R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Save R56 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Nikki Eaton, single, thirty-one, sexually liberated, and economically self-supporting, has never particularly thought of herself as a daughter. Yet, following the unexpected loss of her mother, she undergoes a remarkable transformation during a tumultuous year that brings stunning horror, sorrow, illumination, wisdom, and even from an unexpected source a nurturing love.

Black Girl/White Girl (Paperback): Joyce Carol Oates Black Girl/White Girl (Paperback)
Joyce Carol Oates
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R426 R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 Save R67 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1975 Genna Hewett-Meade's college roommate died a mysterious, violent death partway through their freshman year. Minette Swift had been assertive, fiercely individualistic, and one of the few black girls at their exclusive, "enlightened" college--and Genna, daughter of a prominent civil defense lawyer, felt duty-bound to protect her at all costs. But fifteen years later, while reconstructing Minette's tragic death, Genna is forced to painfully confront her own past life and identity...and her deepest beliefs about social obligation in a morally gray world.

"Black Girl / White Girl" is a searing double portrait of race and civil rights in post-Vietnam America, captured by one of the most important literary voices of our time.

I Am No One You Know (Paperback, 1st Ecco pbk. ed): Joyce Carol Oates I Am No One You Know (Paperback, 1st Ecco pbk. ed)
Joyce Carol Oates
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R445 R374 Discovery Miles 3 740 Save R71 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

I Am No One You Know contains nineteen startling stories that bear witness to the remarkably varied lives of Americans of our time. In "Fire," a troubled young wife discovers a rare, radiant happiness in an adulterous relationship. In "Curly Red," a girl makes a decision to reveal a family secret, and changes her life irrevocably. In "The Girl with the Blackened Eye," selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2001, a girl pushed to an even greater extreme of courage and desperation manages to survive her abduction by a serial killer. And in "Three Girls," two adventuresome NYU undergraduates seal their secret love by following, and protecting, Marilyn Monroe in disguise at Strand Used Books on a snowy evening in 1956. These vividly rendered portraits of women, men, and children testify to Oates's compassion for the mysterious and luminous resources of the human spirit.

Zero-Sum (Hardcover): Joyce Carol Oates Zero-Sum (Hardcover)
Joyce Carol Oates
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R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

‘Oates’s imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carroll’s’ Rose Tremain Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers. A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community; a woman stalked by a would-be killer may be confiding in the wrong former lover; a young woman is morbidly obsessed by her unfamiliar new role as “mother.” In the collection’s longest story, a much-praised cutting-edge writer cruelly experiments with “drafts” of his own suicide. In these powerfully wrought stories that hold a mirror up to our time, Joyce Carol Oates has created a world of erotic obsession, thwarted idealism, and ever-shifting identities. Provocative and stunning, Zero-Sum reinforces Oates’s standing as a literary treasure and an artist of the mysterious interior life. ‘Zero-Sum is brilliant – bloodied, breathless, weird’ A. K. Blakemore, author of The Manningtree Witches ‘A fierce chronicler of survival against the odds … Unstoppable’ Ali Smith ‘Oates is an inspired writer, and a formidable psychologist’ Independent

Blonde (Paperback): Joyce Carol Oates Blonde (Paperback)
Joyce Carol Oates
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R264 Discovery Miles 2 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM, STARRING ANA DE ARMAS, ADRIEN BRODY, BOBBY CANNAVALE AND JULIANNE NICHOLSON, DIRECTED BY ANDREW DOMINIK 'A torrentially imaginative, compulsively readable tour de force' Sunday Telegraph 'A fabulous reinvention of the life of a fabulous reinvention, and a cracking page-turner to boot' Evening Standard Blonde is a mesmerising novel about the most enduring and evocative cultural icon of the 20th century: the woman who became Marilyn Monroe. A fragile and gifted young woman, Norma Jeane Baker makes and remakes her identity: she is the orphan whose mother is declared mad; the woman who changes her name to be an actress; the fated celebrity, lover and muse. Told in her voice, Blonde shows a culture hypnotised by its own myths, and the devastating effects it had on Hollywood's greatest star. 'This masterpiece about Marilyn Monroe's life is audacious, gripping and clever' Rose Tremain 'If you haven't read Joyce Carol Oates before, start here, and now' Independent

48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister: Joyce Carol Oates 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister
Joyce Carol Oates
R309 R255 Discovery Miles 2 550 Save R54 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

When a woman mysteriously vanishes from her small town home, her sister must tally up the clues to uncover the truth behind the mystery. Beautiful sculptor Marguerite has disappeared from her small town in upstate New York. But was foul play involved? Did she merely get away for some fun? Or did she finally make the decision to leave behind her claustrophobic life of limited opportunities? Younger sister Gigi wonders if the flimsy silk Dior dress, so casually abandoned on the floor, is a clue to Marguerite's vanishing. The police puzzle over the footprints made by her Ferragamo boots, which end abruptly close to her home. Bit by bit, revelations about both women are uncovered, as Gigi, not so pretty as her sister, reveals her true feelings about the perfect, much-loved Marguerite. The fate of the missing beauty slowly and subtly comes to light In this suspenseful story about the complex relationship between two sisters. 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister is an exquisitely suspenseful tale from Joyce Carol Oates, literary icon and author of Blonde and We Were the Mulvaneys. 'This elegant, captivating tale is un-put-downable.' Publishers Weekly 'Perfect for all the Daisy Jones & the Six fans out there.' Katie Couric Media 'Another masterpiece of storytelling.' Booklist 'Not just a ripping good mystery, but a meticulous character study.' Los Angeles Magazine

Collectibles (Hardcover): Lawrence Block Collectibles (Hardcover)
Lawrence Block; Contributions by Dennis Lehane, Joyce Carol Oates
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R707 Discovery Miles 7 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Babysitter (Paperback): Joyce Carol Oates Babysitter (Paperback)
Joyce Carol Oates
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R228 Discovery Miles 2 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Breathe (Paperback): Joyce Carol Oates Breathe (Paperback)
Joyce Carol Oates
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R206 Discovery Miles 2 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'America's preeminent fiction writer' New Yorker 'A raw, propulsive tale of love and grief' Mail on Sunday A novel of love and loss from the bestselling and prizewinning author of Blonde. Michaela and her husband have moved to the starkly beautiful but uncanny landscape of New Mexico, to take up an academic residency. But when Gerard is struck by a fatal illness, their life begins to resemble a nightmare. At thirty-seven, Michaela must first face the terrifying prospect of widowhood, then the chaos of the days when Gerard is gone. Haunting and utterly heart-wrenching, Breathe explores the intense madness of grief and what happens when a love cannot be surrendered. 'A fever dream of a novel' New York Times 'Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going, as far as I'm concerned' Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl

48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister (Hardcover): Joyce Carol Oates 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister (Hardcover)
Joyce Carol Oates
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Bellefleur (Paperback): Joyce Carol Oates Bellefleur (Paperback)
Joyce Carol Oates
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R493 R362 Discovery Miles 3 620 Save R131 (27%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A wealthy and notorious clan, the Bellefleurs live in a region not unlike the Adirondacks, in an enormous mansion on the shores of mythic Lake Noir. They own vast lands and profitable businesses, they employ their neighbors, and they influence the government. A prolific and eccentric group, they include several millionaires, a mass murderer, a spiritual seeker who climbs into the mountains looking for God, a wealthy noctambulist who dies of a chicken scratch.

Bellefleur traces the lives of several generations of this unusual family. At its center is Gideon Bellefleur and his imperious, somewhat psychic, very beautiful wife, Leah, their three children (one with frightening psychic abilities), and the servants and relatives, living and dead, who inhabit the mansion and its environs. Their story offers a profound look at the world's changeableness, time and eternity, space and soul, pride and physicality versus love. Bellefleur is an allegory of caritas versus cupiditas, love and selflessness versus pride and selfishness. It is a novel of change, baffling complexity, mystery.

Written with a voluptuousness and startling immediacy that transcends Joyce Carol Oates's early works, Bellefleur is widely regarded as a masterwork--a feat of literary genius that forces us "to ask again how anyone can possibly write such books, such absolutely convincing scenes, rousing in us, again and again, the familiar Oates effect, the point of all her art: joyful terror gradually ebbing toward wonder" (John Gardner).

Night, Neon (Paperback): Joyce Carol Oates Night, Neon (Paperback)
Joyce Carol Oates
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R300 R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Save R56 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

From literary icon Joyce Carol Oates, author of Blonde, now a major motion picture, comes a brand new collection of haunting and, at times, darkly humorous mystery and suspense stories. These are tales of psyches pushed to their limits by the expectations of everyday life - from a woman who gets lost on her drive back to her plush suburban home and ends up breaking into a stranger's house, to a first-person account of a cloned 1940s magazine pinup girl being sold at auction and embodying America's ideals of beauty and womanhood. Taken as a whole, the collection forms a poignant tapestry of regular people searching for their place in a social hierarchy, often with devastating and disastrous results. Rendered with stylish, fresh writing from an author who continues to push the envelope, the stories deftly weave in and out of a stream-of-consciousness to reflect the ways we process traumatic experiences and impart that uncertainty and uneasiness to the reader. The stories comprising Night, Neon showcase Oates' mastery of the suspense story and her relentless use of the form to conduct unapologetically honest explorations of American identity. 'Embracing the twists and turns of everyday American life, the author's latest short story collection is playful, gripping and disturbing.' Guardian Reviews for Joyce Carol Oates: 'Oates chillingly depicts the darkness lurking within the everyday.' Sunday Express 'Both haunting and sublime.' Literary Review 'Splendidly chilling.' Financial Times 'Visceral, psychologically involving, and socially astute.' Booklist

High Lonesome - New and Selected Stories, 1966-2006 (Hardcover): Joyce Carol Oates High Lonesome - New and Selected Stories, 1966-2006 (Hardcover)
Joyce Carol Oates
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R594 R525 Discovery Miles 5 250 Save R69 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

No other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates. High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 gathers short fiction from the acclaimed author's seminal collections and includes eleven new tales that further demonstrate the breathtaking artistry and striking originality of an incomparable talent who "has imbued the American short story with an edgy vitality and raw social surfaces" (Chicago Tribune).

In Darkest America (Paperback): Joyce Carol Oates In Darkest America (Paperback)
Joyce Carol Oates
R371 R352 Discovery Miles 3 520 Save R19 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Darkest America contains the plays The Eclipse and Tone Clusters. The Eclipse: A middle aged professor lives with her ailing mother. The old lady, once a brilliant teacher, moves in and out of reality, has a fantasy Latin lover, and makes her daughter's life miserable. One night she whirls in a torrid dance with her lover while her daughter sleeps; death has released both from suffering. This haunting play by one of America's foremost authors was commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville for the Humana Festival and was subsequently produced Off Broadway. Tone Clusters: Frank and Emily are a nice couple with a house in a nice neighborhood. Why are they under so much strain? They are interviewed by an unseen interrogator and their story emerges: the body of a 14 year old girl was found in their basement and their son is charged with the murder. Do they share in the guilt? Could we find ourselves in their situation?

High Crime Area - Tales of Darkness and Dread (Paperback, Reissue): Joyce Carol Oates High Crime Area - Tales of Darkness and Dread (Paperback, Reissue)
Joyce Carol Oates
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R269 R219 Discovery Miles 2 190 Save R50 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

From Joyce Carol Oates, literary icon and author of Blonde, now a major motion picture, comes a collection of darkly compelling tales. A young professor is convinced she's being followed, but when she confronts her shadow all is not as it seems. A promising student attempts to save her brother from his descent into madness, but finds there may be more to his world than hers. An elderly nun is found dead in her care home, but was it old age or dark secrets that killed her? These biting and beautiful stories force us to confront, one by one, the demons within. Reviews for Joyce Carol Oates: 'A writer of extraordinary strengths.' Guardian 'Oates chillingly depicts the darkness lurking within the everyday.' Sunday Express 'Both haunting and sublime.' Literary Review 'Splendidly chilling.' Financial Times 'Visceral, psychologically involving, and socially astute.' Booklist

The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (Paperback): Joyce Carol Oates, Christopher R. Beha The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (Paperback)
Joyce Carol Oates, Christopher R. Beha
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R597 R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Save R69 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A definitive collection of the very best short stories by contemporary American masters

Edited by Joyce Carol Oates, "the living master of the short story" ("Buffalo News"), and Christopher R. Beha, this volume provides an important overview of the contemporary short story and a selection of the very best that American short fiction has to offer.

Son of the Morning (Paperback): Joyce Carol Oates Son of the Morning (Paperback)
Joyce Carol Oates
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R434 R368 Discovery Miles 3 680 Save R66 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. - A Novel (Hardcover): Joyce Carol Oates Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. - A Novel (Hardcover)
Joyce Carol Oates
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R1,085 R372 Discovery Miles 3 720 Save R713 (66%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society Night Sleep Death The Stars is a gripping examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, Joyce Carol Oates's latest novel is a vivid exploration of race, psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing, as well as an intimate family novel in the tradition of the author's bestselling We Were the Mulvaneys.

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