Find og sammenlign priser på tusindvis af bøger
Unavailable for 40 years, this seminal novel of madness and murder is acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates powerful trip into the mind of a maniac. Abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, shuttled from one abusive foster home and detention center to an
A brilliant and thought-provoking novel about family, loyalty and betrayal Once Id been Daddys favourite. Before something terrible happened. Violet Rue is the baby of the seven Kerrigan children and adores her big brothers. Whats more, she knows that a f
Matt Donaghy has always been a Big Mouth. But it's never gotten him in trouble -- until the day Matt is accused of threatening to blow up Rocky River High School. Ursula Riggs has always been an Ugly Girl. A loner with fierce, staring eyes, Ursula has
The National Book Award finalist and national bestseller exploring the life and legend of Marilyn Monroe Soon to be a Netflix Film starring Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne Nicholson In one of her most ambitious works, Joyce Carol
Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going GILLIAN FLYNN 'Gripping Bravura storytelling' VOGUE 'A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare' FINANCIAL TIMES From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an
From Joyce Carol Oates, literary icon and author of BLONDE , now a major motion picture, come four psychologically daring and chillingly suspenseful stories where women face threats both past and present. A Pennsylvania academic unearths a terrifying trau
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
Teena Maguire should not have tried to shortcut her way home that Fourth of July. Not after midnight, not through Rocky Point Park. Not the way she was dressed in a tank top, denim cutoffs, and high-heeled sandals. Not with her twelve-year-old daughter Be
From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women's asylum in the 19th century, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world In this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we
'A page-turner ... nothing less than magical' Observer 'An extraordinary slice of suburban noir' Daily Mail From one of America's most renowned storytellers comes a novel about love and deceit, and lust and redemption, against a backgr
A masterful novel about a violent crime and its reverberations throughout a community as timely and relevant in 2019 as it was when first published in 2001 We were the Mulvaneys, remember us? For a long time you envied us, then you pitied us. For a long
A mesmerizing storyteller who seems almost unnaturally able to enter the tormented inner lives of her characters. Denver Post Black Dahlia & White Rose is a brilliant collection of short fiction from National Book Award winner and New York Times best
Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going GILLIAN FLYNN 'Gripping Bravura storytelling' VOGUE 'A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare' FINANCIAL TIMES From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an
Chilling FINANCIAL TIMES Tom Ripley, eat your heart out NPR Eerie, shocking, provoking GILLIAN FLYNN A chilling, captivating novel about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charming, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding s
"Blonde" by Joyce Carol Oates is a gripping portrait of the woman who became the icon, Marilyn Monroe. Norma Jeane Baker is a fragile and gifted young woman who sees her chance to remake her identity and become a star. Told in the voice of Norma
From the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all. Insightful, disturbing, imaginative, an
The Pulitzer Prize-nominated novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling novel We Were the Mulvaneys "Taut, powerfully imagined and beautifully written, Black Water ranks with the best of Joyce Carol Oates's already long list of disti
What has become of Marguerite Fulmer? On an otherwise average day in Upstate New York, the young woman left her family home, never to return. No note was left, no explanation; just a messy bedroom and her sister Gigi, driven to dig through the meager clue
Oatess imagination is as unique, dystopian and vivid as Lewis Carrolls ROSE TREMAIN 'A master storyteller' THE TIMES 'Electric' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of Ame
"A mesmerizing storyteller who seems almost unnaturally able to enter the tormented inner lives of her characters." -Denver Post Black Dahlia & White Rose is a brilliant collection of short fiction from National Book Award winner and New York Ti
A powerful reckoning over the people we might have been if we'd chosen a different path, from a master of the short story In this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might
Herein is the unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an "infamous" American family destroyed a decade ago by the murder of Skyler's six-year-old ice-skating champion sister, Bliss
An engrossing early novel from Joyce Carol Oates explores a fraught and perilous relationship between two women Originally published in 1985, Solstice is the gripping story of Monica Jensen and Sheila Trask, two young women who are complete opposites yet
A young woman tumbles into a nightmare of decadent desire and corrupted innocence in a superb novella of suspense from National Book Award-winner Joyce Carol Oates. Art and arson, the poetry of D. H. Lawrence and pulp pornography, hero-worship and sexual
The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society 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
Chilling FINANCIAL TIMES Tom Ripley, eat your heart out NPR Eerie, shocking, provoking GILLIAN FLYNN A chilling, captivating novel about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charming, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding s
A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. A newlywed, he has left behind his wife, Ariah Erskine, in the honeymoon suite the morning after their wedding. ""The Widow Bride of The Falls,"" as Ariah comes to be known
New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates's strongest and most unsparing novel yet--an always engrossing, often shocking evocation of female rage, gallantry, and grit. The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New Yor
A gripping collection of propulsive, psychologically suspenseful stories by the legendary Joyce Carol Oates "who is surely on any shortlist of America's greatest living writers" ( The New York Times Magazine ) "A genius in the truest se
I denne roman af en af verdens mest populære og betydningsfulde forfattere bliver familiebåndene sat godt og grundigt på prøve i kølvandet på en stor tragedie, og vi får indblik i samfundets dystre sider. Natten. Søvnen. Døden. Stjernerne. er en gribende