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Rape

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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: tank top, denim cut-offs, high-heeled sandals. Not with her twelve-year-old daughter,… Read More
Beasts

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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… Read More
The Barrens

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In this gripping psychological thriller, Joyce Carol Oates, New York Times best-selling author and one of the most versatile and original voices in contemporary American fiction, delivers a startling, complex tale of a serial killer and the people that his… Read More

Joyce Carol Oates

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JOYCE CAROL OATES, one of America’s most honored authors, has written such critically praised and popular novels as We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, and Black Water, as well as the acclaimed novella Beasts and The Barrens. She won the National Book Award for Them, received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Rape

by Joyce Carol Oates

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Beasts

by Joyce Carol Oates

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The Barrens

by Joyce Carol Oates

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