Evil Eye

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Evil Eye
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Joyce Carol Oates
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 130
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781781853627
ClassificationsDewey:FIC
Audience
General
Edition UK Airports ed

Publishing Details

Publisher Head of Zeus
Imprint Head of Zeus
Publication Date 19 June 2014
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Four dark and compelling novellas about love gone wrong. Joyce Carol Oates is one of the most prominent writers of her generation. In EVIL EYE, Oates offers four dark and compelling tales of love gone horribly wrong. The young fourth wife of a prominent intellectual thinks herself happy until the first wife comes to stay... A shy teenager meets a dazzling kindred spirit. But the first sparks of young love soon take on a darker shade... A spoiled frat boy decides to murder his parents, only to be floored by the power of his mother's love... A fragile woman reveals deeply buried secrets to her curious lover with devastating consequences... All of these stories are about love, just not as we like to think of it.

Author Biography

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award and the PEN / Malamud Award, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her books include We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, Carthage, A Book of American Martyrs and Hazards of Time Travel. She is Professor of Humanities at Princeton University.

Reviews

'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. 'This writer is a phenomenon' Daily Mail. 'Oates is a brilliant, unstoppable writing-machine and this collection of stories is Oates at her best - spare, swift, beautifully observed and quietly lethal' The Times. 'Extremely compelling... we cannot look away no matter how gruesome the sight' Spectator. 'Readable but troubling tales ... Oates unnerves to the last' The Independent. 'A creepy, macabre thrill from start to finish ... a spine-chilling, hair-raising denouement of amazing power. Terrific stuff' Independent on Sunday.