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Joyce Carol Oates
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The Female of the SpeciesThe Female of the Species Newpbk 15 Feb 07
The BarrensThe Barrens
About the Author
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New British Pbk Original - Quercus (2007)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk The Female of the Species
With wicked insight, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates why the female of the species - be they six-year-old girls, seemingly devoted wives, or aged mothers - are by nature more deadly than the males.
In these gripping and disturbing tales, women are cited by the evil around them and surprised by the evil they find within themselves. A young wife is home alone when the phone rings in ‘So Help Me God’. Who is the strange voice flirting with her?. Her jealous husband laying a trap, or a stranger who knows too much? In ‘Madison at Guignol’, a fashionista discovers a secret door inside her favourite store and insists the staff let her enter. But even her fevered imagination cannot anticipate the horror they have been hiding ...
'Joyce Carol Oates is a genius' Guardian


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First British Edition Orion (2002)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk The Barrens
Writing as Rosamond Smith
From the author of the bestselling Blonde, a tale as haunting as a worst memory and as chilling as its reality.
Matt McBride remembers the first victim. He was barely out of junior high when the mutilated body of the popular, pretty teenager was uncovered in the desolate New Jersey Pine Barrens and the horror haunts his memory still. Although Matt had hardly known the girl, he has long felt guilty at not having been able somehow to prevent the atrocity.
Now another attractive young woman has disappeared. Matt knew this victim, too. Just possibly he knew her more intimately than he can admit. By degrees Matt becomes obsessed with a guilt he can neither comprehend nor allay. The fabric of his seemingly happy marriage begins to unravel. His increasingly erratic behaviour heightens police suspicions. It also draws official attention away from an artist - a man of tortured memory -to a shattering confrontation.


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About The Author
Joyce Carol Oates is the award-winning, bestselling author of many books, including Blonde, Broke Heart Blues, Black Water, Them and Faithless. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

  • The Female of the Species (Quercus Pbk, 2007) New Pbk Feb 07
  • The Barrens (Orion, 2002)


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