| Record Number |
767729 |
| ISBN |
9781786693983 (paperback) |
| 9781786693976 (hardback) |
| Author |
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- author. |
| Title |
Dis mem ber : and other stories of mystery and suspense / Joyce Carol Oates. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Head of Zeus, 2017. |
| ©2017 |
| Pagination etc. |
237 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Contents note |
"A Mysterious Press book"--Title page. |
| Dis mem ber -- The crawl space -- Heartbreak -- The drowned girl -- The situations -- Great blue heron -- Welcome to friendly skies! |
| Summary Note |
Seven unsettling works from one of our greatest literary imaginations. A precocious eleven-year-old girl, in thrall to the mysterious black sheep of the family, climbs into his sky-blue Chevy for a drive into the unknown...A university transfer student becomes increasingly obsessed with the murder of a female classmate, placing her own sense of self in peril...A recent widow fantasises about transforming into a great flying predator, unerring and pitiless in the hunt...A trusting group of bird-watchers is borne to a remote part of the globe, and to a harrowing fate...These meticulously crafted, deeply disquieting stories confront the dangers that surround us, and the dangers that lurk within. |
| Subject |
Girls -- Fiction |
| Women -- Fiction |
| Danger perception -- Fiction |
| Thrillers (Fiction) |
| Detective and mystery fiction. |
| Short stories. |
| Shelf Location |
F OATE |
