Ce n'était pas comme si elle ne nous avait pas prévenues. Ce n'était pas comme si elle ne nous y avait pas préparées. Nous savions que quelque chose n'allait pas ces derniers mois. Mais Tink n'a pas vraiment disparu. Tink est partie et pourtant – elle est là quelque part, même si nous ne pouvons la voir.

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'A writer of extraordinary strengths' Guardian

 Set in the mythical small city of Sparta, New York, this searing, vividly rendered exploration of the mysterious conjunction of erotic romance and tragic violence in late 20th-century America.

 When a young wife and mother named Zoe Kruller is found brutally murdered, the Sparta police target two primary suspects: her estranged husband Delray and her longtime lover Eddy Diehl. In turn, the Krullers's son Aaron and Eddy's daughter Krista become obsessed with one another, each believing the other's father is guilty.

 Told in halves in the very different voices of Krista and Aaron, Little Bird of Heaven is classic Joyce Carol Oates, in which the lyricism of intense sexual love is intertwined with the anguish of loss, and tenderness is barely distinguishable from cruelty. By the novel's end, the fated lovers, meeting again as adults, are at last ready to exorcise the ghosts of the past and come to terms with their legacy of guilt, misplaced love and redemptive yearning.

 With Little Bird of Heaven, Joyce Carol Oates once again confirms her place as one of the most outstanding writers at work today.

Little Bird of Heaven

The latest Ecco reissue of Joyce Carol Oates' early classics: a fiery gothic tale of doomed fates and demons of biblical proportions in rural New York state Nathan Vickery came into the world amid unfortunate circumstances. His mother, Elsa Vickery, daughter of an agnostic small town doctor and his pious wife, was brutally assaulted at the age of seventeen. The son she gave birth to in the wake of this event is brought up by his grandmother as a devoted Christian. At the age of seven, Nathan begins to see visions of Christ and embarks on a path as a prodigy boy-preacher, hurtling toward enlightenment while increasingly falling under the dangerous spell of power. Nathan becomes the leader of an evangelical church, accumulating vast riches from donation. Each year, his visions grow more elaborate and grandiose. When he suddenly feels that God has forsaken him, is it punishment for indulging in the sins of lust, pride, and greed that he has long preached against? Joyce Carol Oates's talent for searing psychological inquiry and her eye for detail as well as her knack for indelible character portrayals and unflinching social commentary are fully on display in Son of the Morning. Fans of her work will be thrilled to see this early novel, the influences of which can be observed in later tour-de-force works like A Book of American Martyrs and The Sacrifice.

Son of the Morning

The Barnes & Noble ReviewEver make a stupid comment or joke, or say something you obviously didn't mean? Of course you have -- we all have. Was it ever taken out of context? Written in the wake of some highly publicized school shootings, Big Mouth & Ugly Girl takes a look at the shock waves that emanate from an overheard comment muttered in sarcasm, and the overzealous reaction of the school and surrounding community that follows. High school junior Matt Donaghy is considered an okay guy. He gets good grades, writes for the school paper, is in the Drama Club, and is known for his witty, if immature, humor. Students and teachers seem to like him. But one day he says something that makes a few classmates think he's out to bomb the school. The school principal is notified, the police are called in, and rumors are abuzz. Even his buddies doubt his innocence, and none of the guys come forward in his defense. There is, however, someone else who overheard Matt's statement and understood his mocking intent. School renegade Ursula Riggs, or "Ugly Girl" as she refers to herself, doesn't know Matt very well but reveals what she heard and the context in which it was said -- even though her parents instruct her to mind her own business. But even if Ursula can help Matt clear up this misunderstanding, will life at Rocky River High School ever be the same again? In her first novel for young adults, acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates delivers a striking story about friendship, family, community, support, betrayal, and self-confidence. This powerful novel makes us think carefully about what we say, to whom we say it, and what we mean. After closing this book, you'll ask yourself the same question I did: What if I'd said such a thing? (Michele D. Thomas)

Nulle et Grande Gueule

Elle a onze ans et se retrouve par un été humide et chaud dans l'immense maison de sa grand-tante Ester, " la maison du Révérend " à Ransomville, un bourg de campagne " où tout le monde va à l'église mais où personne ne croit en Dieu ". Négligée par sa mère qui s'est séparée de son mari pour des raisons non avouées, la petite fille, isolée et sevrée d'affection, est fascinée par son cousin Jared, 25 ans, étudiant en théologie, un être mystérieux et d'une cruauté raffinée. Dans ce désert des âmes et des sentiments, que hantent un grand serpent noir, un vautour prédateur et des portraits de Jésus, Josie se laisse emmener par le diabolique Jared au bord du crime et d'une sordide histoire d'amour - dont seule une Joyce Carol Oates, au plus efficace de ses talents de magicienne, pouvait la sauver.

Premier amour - Un conte gothique

Kathleen a onze ans. Sa mère vient de les quitter pour disparaître à jamais. Son père, dans une crise de démence alcoolique, a battu à mort sa soeur Nola et blessé si grièvement la petite Kathleen qu'elle doit être hospitalisée.Un mois d'hôpital avant l'Assistance publique. Un mois vécu comme un rêve interrompu. Ce rêve, elle croit le reprendre en devenant infirmière et pense trouver le bonheur dans l'amour qu'elle voue à un médecin.Mais le destin, dans une infernale et implacable logique, va la ramener au commencement de sa vie marquée par l'abandon et la mort.Un des romans les plus poignants de la grande romancière américaine.

Au commencement était la vie

"Oates' American saga captivates because it exists within an actual drama playing out across the country... Martyrs is a graceful and excruciating story of two families who do not live very far apart, but exist in different realities. " --USA Today, 4-star review"Successful because [Oates] refuses to satirize or dehumanize anyone, even murderous foes of abortion... With its wrath and violence, A Book of American Martyrs offers this teaspoon of warmth in these troubled times: that it is possible to be wrong without surrendering your humanity."  --Los Angeles Times"The most relevant book of Oates's half-century-long career, a powerful reminder that fiction can be as timely as this morning's tweets but infinitely more illuminating." --Washington PostA powerfully resonant and provocative novel from American master and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates In this striking, enormously affecting novel, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different and yet intimately linked American families. Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God's will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town while Augustus Voorhees, the idealistic but self-regarding doctor who is killed, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief. In her moving, insightful portrait, Joyce Carol Oates fully inhabits the perspectives of two interwoven families whose destinies are defined by their warring convictions and squarely-but with great empathy-confronts an intractable, abiding rift in American society.  A Book of American Martyrs is a stunning, timely depiction of an issue hotly debated on a national stage but which makes itself felt most lastingly in communities torn apart by violence and hatred.

A Book of American Martyrs - A Novel

S'emparant d'un fait-divers, un mystère jamais résolu, qui bouleversa l'Amérique - l'assassinat le soir de Noël 1996 de la petite JonBenet Ramsey, six ans et demi, célèbre mini-Miss vedette de concours de beauté -, Joyce Carol Oates reconstruit l'affaire qu'elle n'hésite pas, elle, à dénouer.Une histoire effarante racontée dix ans après par le frère de la victime. La petite fille s'appelle maintenant Bliss, c'est une championne de patinage sur glace, l'enfant adoré de ses parents, la coqueluche d'un pays, la sœur aimée et jalousée par son frère, son aîné de trois ans, Skyler. Skyler qui, depuis le meurtre, a vécu dans un univers de drogues, de psys et d'établissements médicalisés. Âgé aujourd'hui de dix-neuf ans, il fait de son récit une sorte de thérapie.Ses souvenirs sont à la fois vivaces et disloqués. Peu à peu émerge le nom du coupable : est-ce le père - homme d'affaires ambitieux, la mère - arriviste forcenée, un étranger cinglé ou bien... le narrateur lui-même ? Tous les ingrédients préférés de Joyce Carol Oates sont là : la vanité féminine, la stupidité masculine, la famille dysfonctionnelle, l'angoisse du parvenu, le christianisme de charlatan, les dérives de la psychanalyse, le vampirisme des médias, l'incompétence de la police.Pour produire en fin de compte un chef-d'oeuvre hallucinant, un dépeçage au scalpel de l'âme humaine et de l'horreur ordinaire...

Petite sœur, mon amour

A riveting novel that explores the high price of success in the life of one woman—the first female president of a lauded ivy league institution—and her hold upon her self-identity in the face of personal and professional demons, from Joyce Carol Oates, author of the New York Times bestseller A Widow’s StoryMudgirl is a child abandoned by her mother 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, seemingly sealing it off forever. 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. Involved with a secret lover whose feelings for her are teasingly undefined, and concerned with the intensifying crisis of the American political climate as the United States edges toward war with Iraq, M.R. is confronted with challenges to her leadership that test her in ways she could not have anticipated. The fierce idealism and intelligence that delivered her from a more conventional life in her upstate New York hometown now threaten to undo her.A reckless trip upstate thrusts M.R. Neukirchen 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 portrait of a woman cracking the glass ceiling at enormous personal cost, which explores the tension between childhood and adulthood, the real and the imagined, and the “public” and “private” in the life of a highly complex contemporary woman.

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