High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread
Author(s): Joyce Carol Oates
A collection of darkly compelling tales from the unique imagination of Joyce Carol Oates. A young professor is convinced she's being followed, but when she confronts her shadow events take an unexpected turn...A promising student attempts to save her brother from his descent into madness, but she soon finds out there may be more to his world than to hers...A renowned author embarks on a grand tour of Europe, but soon his bad manners threaten to cost him more than he has to give...These biting and beautiful stories force us to confront, one by one, the demons within.
General Information
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- : Head of Zeus
- : Head of Zeus
- : 04 December 2014
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 January 2015
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Joyce Carol Oates
- : Paperback
- : UK Airports ed
- : 256
More About The Product
'These 'tales of darkness and dread' won't put you to sleep, but they'll give you more interesting nightmares.' New York Review of Books. 'A writer of extraordinary strengths.' Guardian. 'If the phrase 'woman of letters' existed, Joyce Carol Oates would be, foremost in this country, entitled to it.' John Updike.
Joyce Carol Oates is the author of over 70 works 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.
