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Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Accursed. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
<p>‘The story of Trump’s America’ Daily Mail</p>
<p>‘Page-turning, gripping, full of unexpected twists’ Observer</p>
<p>‘A magnificent story of two broken families, both steeped in grief’ Independent</p>
<p>‘Icily subtle … at its spine-tingling best when staring into the dark, a sliver away from the Gothic’ Spectator</p>
<p>‘Dramatic, dazzling, ingenious, agile … her uniquely sane, empathetic voice seems particularly vital and timely during Trump’s presidency’ Literary Review</p>
<p>‘The most relevant book of Oates’s half-century-long career . . . a masterpiece’ Washington Post</p>
<p>‘Oates's American saga captivates because it exists within an actual drama playing out across the country. A graceful and excruciating story of two families who do not live very far apart, but exist in different realities’ USA Today</p>
Two families.
Two faces of America.
One violent crime that will bitterly divide them – and yet bind them together forever.
‘A magnificent story of two broken families’ Independent
‘Page-turning, gripping, full of unexpected twists’ Observer
‘From its dramatic opening, with the killing of an abortionist, the book rockets forwards … Ingenious, agile, dazzling’ Literary Review
‘Morally meaty and always readable’ Sunday Times
‘A masterpiece’ Washington Post
• Uses the sweeping story of two contrasting families to explore the divisions in American society that recent politics have exposed
• Offers a nuanced view of life in the American ‘rust belt’, as seen in J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy (13K TCM)
• Abortion, gun crime, capital punishment: this is overflowing with controversial discussion points and perfect for readers’ groups
• The Abortionist’s Daughter (Elisabeth Hyde) sold 274K TCM
• ‘The most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going’ Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl
Competition: We Have Always Lived In The Castle; My Name Is Lucy Barton; Gustav Sonata; We Need To Talk About Kevin; Essex Serpent; We Have Always Lived In The Castle; The Heart'S Invisible Furies; Age Of Anger; Wait For Me, Jack; Perfume River; Moonglow. Helen Dunmore;Lionel Shriver; Joyce Carol Oates; Ann Patchett; Rose Tremain; Elizabeth Strout; Shirley Jackson; Sarah Perry; Jon McGregor; Paul Auster; John Boyne; Pankaj Mishra; Addison Jones; Robert Olen Butler; Michael Chabon;
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Accursed. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.