Recueil de nouvelles où Joyce Carol Oates décrit les difficultés de la vie de couple, la dégradation de la passion dans le quotidien, des scènes anodines en apparence de la vie de tous les jours...

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Oxford book of American short stories

Blonde ne ressemble à aucun livre de Joyce Carol Oates. Avec cette oeuvre monumentale et baroque, qu'elle compose à partir des fantasmes que lui inspire Marilyn Monroe, l'écrivain a marqué de son empreinte un genre inédit : la "bio-fiction". Construite en cinq actes, cette tragédie est écrite sur deux modes : l'un, narratif et réaliste, l'autre surréaliste, composé de visions et d'hallucinations. Un peu comme si la folie d'une Marilyn starifiée venait interrompre les voix de différents personnages tentant de raconter son histoire. Au sein de ce chœur, on entend le souffle gracile et timide de Norma Jeane, l'enfant blessée et perdue que Marilyn a dû être, obsédée par le pouvoir de destruction et la fragilité de sa mère.

Blonde

The first novel from New York Times-bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a thrilling, dark tale of family, revenge, and two souls intertwined by love and violence-now back in print for fans of America's most prolific storyteller. Written when Joyce Carol Oates was in her early twenties, and first published in 1964, With Shuddering Fall is her powerful debut novel, the first of five new Oates reprints from Ecco. Following the turbulent story of two lovers who discover themselves mortal enemies, the author explores the struggle for dominance in erotic relationships that has become a predominant theme in her work, as well as the perils of patriarchal inheritance, and the ripple-effects of emotional loss in adolescence.  The result is an unsentimental yet sympathetic rendering of a disastrous love affair in which hatred is nearly as powerful as love, and a yearning for destruction is an abiding and insatiable passion. Discover what prompted the New York Times to compare this young writer's debut to Shirley Jackson's famous short story, "The Lottery."  Readers looking for a place to start in Joyce Carol Oates's vast catalogue will be intrigued by the sheer narrative force of the young author, and her willingness to anatomize the darkest recesses of humanity in a search for redemption and resolution.

With Shuddering Fall - A Novel

From Publishers Weekly:"Standouts include Dennis Lehane's gilt-edged chiller, 'A Bostonian (in Cambridge), ' in which a wealthy collector of letters of abandonment falls prey to wily blackmailers, and Joe R. Lansdale's 'The Skull Collector, ' a gangster yarn featuring gun-toting female grave robbers. Overshadowing everything, though, is Lee Goldberg's 'Lost Shows, ' a delightful shocker about a fanatical collector of short-lived and unaired TV shows who has turned his Hollywood home into a mausoleum of lost dreams." A COLLECTION. OF COLLECTIONS What leads one person to collect stamps and another coins, one fine art and another butterflies? Who can say? But one thing is certain: those who've got the collecting bug care passionately-sometimes violently-about the objects of their obsession. No one covets like a collector; and as you will find in the pages of this brand new anthology from MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block, a truly dedicated collector will ignore the other nine commandments, too, in his quest for his personal Holy Grail. From Joyce Carol Oates' tale of the ultimate Marilyn Monroe collectible to Dennis Lehane's bookseller with a penchant for other people's tragic correspondence, from Lee Goldberg's Hollywood hustler with a collection of unaired TV shows to Joe R. Lansdale's stylish foray into noir, culminating in Lawrence Block's own classic story of a killer with a unique approach to choosing his victims, Collectibles illustrates the range of the collecting impulse and the lengths people will go to in their hunger to possess the perfect piece.

Collectibles

'A writer of extraordinary strengths' Guardian

Little bird of heaven

Au matin de sa nuit de noces, Ariah Littrell découvre que son époux s'est jeté dans les chutes du Niagara. Durant sept jours et sept nuits, elle erre au bord du gouffre, à la recherche de son destin brisé. Celle que l'on surnomme désormais «la Veuve blanche des Chutes» attire pourtant l'attention d'un brillant avocat. Une passion aussi improbable qu'absolue les entraîne, mais la malédiction rôde...

«Les Chutes exerçaient néanmoins un charme maléfique, qui ne faiblissait jamais.»

Les chutes

Wymouth, New Jersey. Agent immobilier le jour et photographe la nuit, Malt McBride semble heureux. Qui se douterait qu'il n'a jamais pu oublier le cadavre atrocement mutilé de Marcey Mason, découvert jadis dans un ravin ?Aujourd'hui encore, il est certain que ce meurtre aurait pu être évité s'il avait été moins indifférent au charme de la jeune fille.Quand il apprend que son amie Diana Zwolle a récemment disparu, il fait immédiatement le lien entre les deux affaires. Porterait-il malheur ? Un sentiment de culpabilité l'accable, et la police ne tarde pas à se convaincre qu'il est le principal suspect.

Le ravin

Joshua Seigl, a celebrated but reclusive author, is forced for reasons of failing health to surrender his much-prized bachelor's independence. Advertising for an assistant, he unwittingly embarks upon the most dangerous adventure of his privileged life.Alma Busch, a sensuous, physically attractive young woman with bizarre tattoos covering much of her body, stirs in Seigl a complex of emotions: pity? desire? responsibility? guilt? Unaware of her painful past and her troubled personality, Seigl hires her as his assistant. As the novel alternates between Seigl's and Alma's points of view, the naïve altruism of the one and the virulent anti-Semitism of the other clash in a tragedy of thwarted erotic desire.With her masterful balance of dark suspense and surprising tenderness, Joyce Carol Oates probes the contemporary tragedy of ethnic hatred and challenges our accepted limits of desire. The Tattooed Girl may be her most controversial novel.

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