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Joyce Carol Oates is a novelist, critic, playwright, poet and author of short stories and one of America’s most highly respected literary figures. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys, which was an Oprah Book Club Choice, and Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University and a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction.
<p><strong>'A ghastly and harrowing page-turner</strong> … Faint of heart? Stay away<strong>'</strong> Stephen King, via X</p>
<p>‘<strong>A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare</strong> … A triumph of style and brio’ <em>Financial Times</em></p>
<p>An <strong>empathic and discerning</strong> commentary on women’s rights, the abuses of patriarchy and the servitude of the poor and disenfranchised' <em>The New York Times Book Review</em></p>
<p>'<em>Butcher </em>is <strong>vivid and compellingly drawn</strong>, its prose scalpel-sharp … Oates remains<strong> a master storyteller with her finger on the pulse of humanity</strong>, forever alive to its moral failures and flaw' <em>iNews</em></p>
<p>'<strong>Terrifying</strong>, Oates’ storytelling so effective that at times I found myself averting my eyes from the words on the page’ <em>Flaunt </em></p>
<p>'<strong>A creepy, circuitous tale</strong> … splendidly written' <em>Kirkus</em></p>
<p><em>'</em>Oates' writing is so deft and the world she creates so vivid, one keeps turning the pages, all the way to the deeply unsettling ending' <em>The New York Journal of Books</em></p>
<p><em>'Butcher </em>is <strong>JCO at her best</strong> … an essential text for understanding America’s long war on women' <em>CrimeReads</em>, 'The Best Historical Fiction of 2024'</p>
<p>'Humour doesn’t get more macabre than this’ Sophie Mackintosh, <em>Literary Review</em></p>
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<strong>Praise for Joyce Carol Oates:</strong>
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<p>‘One of the greatest — and most productive — living American writers’ <em>Financial Times</em></p>
<p>'Oates is a massive literary heavyweight, and many earnestly believe she could knock the other contenders for the title of Great American Novelist' <em>Guardian</em></p>
<p>‘[A] notoriously prolific chronicler of America’s cracked, calamitous heart’ <em>Esquire</em></p>
<p>‘America’s preeminent fiction writer’ <em>The New Yorker</em></p>
‘Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going’ GILLIAN FLYNN
'Gripping … Bravura storytelling' VOGUE
'A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare' FINANCIAL TIMES
From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’s asylum in the nineteenth century, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world.
In this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, “Father of Gyno-Psychiatry,” as he ascends from professional anonymity to national renown. Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics, where he reigns. There, he is allowed to continue his practice, unchecked for decades, making a name for himself by focusing on women who have been neglected by the state—women he subjects to the most grotesque modes of experimentation. As he begins to establish himself as a pioneer of nineteenth-century surgery, Weir’s ambition is fueled by his obsessive fascination with a young Irish indentured servant named Brigit, who becomes not only Weir’s primary experimental subject, but also the agent of his destruction.
Narrated by Silas Weir’s eldest son, who has repudiated his father’s brutal legacy, Butcher is a unique blend of fiction and fact, a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche conjoined, in its startling conclusion, with unexpected romance. Once again, Joyce Carol Oates has written a spellbinding novel confirming her position as one of our celebrated American visionaries of the imagination.
'A master storyteller' THE TIMES
'Vividly and compellingly-drawn' iNEWS
‘Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going’ GILLIAN FLYNN
'Gripping … Bravura storytelling' VOGUE
'A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare' FINANCIAL TIMES
The vivid new thriller from the multi-award winning Joyce Carol Oates - ‘A master storyteller’, The Times
Competition: The Quiet Tenant;Fairy Tale;The Shards;The Testaments;Babysitter;Zero-Sum;Zombie; Babysitter; Blonde; Mania; Poor Things. Stephen King; Margaret Atwood; Clemence Michallon; Bret Easton Ellis; Lionel Shriver; Alasdair Gray; Mariana Enríquez; Eliza Clark
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Joyce Carol Oates is a novelist, critic, playwright, poet and author of short stories and one of America’s most highly respected literary figures. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys, which was an Oprah Book Club Choice, and Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University and a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction.