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Detroit, 1977. I tidningarna kretsar nyheterna kring en bestialisk seriemördare kallad Barnvakten. Hannah, hustru till en framgångsrik affärsman, bor i en av stadens välbärgade förorter och kan inte sluta oroa sig för att Barnvakten ska ta hennes ...

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Whitey McClaren är före detta borgmästare och en respekterad man i samhället där han bor. När han en dag stannar bilen för att hindra två poliser som brutalt misshandlar en man, slutar det med att han själv blir angripen. Den korta tid som återstå...

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A page-turner nothing less than magical Observer An extraordinary slice of suburban noir Daily Mail From one of Americas most renowned storytellers comes a novel about love and deceit, and lust and redemption, against a background of child abducti...

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När tolvåriga Violet Rue råkar höra sina bröder prata om hur de begått ett fruktansvärt brott slits hon mellan att vara lojal med sin familj och att berätta sanningen. Ensam i världen tvingas hon bryta sig fri från sina föreställningar om vad en f...

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Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), av Hollywood lanserad som den amerikanska Drömflickan, är förmodligen en av 1900-talets mest omskrivna kvinnor: ett resultat av hennes skönhet, sexuella utstrålning, talang som komedienn och sångerska, hennes trassliga ...

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Unflinching and unforgettable, devastating in its impact, Joyce Carol Oate's fictional journey into the mind of paroled sex offender Quentin P. provides a psychologically astute portrait of the way cold calculation and dark obsession combine in a ...

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The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society Night Sleep D...

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I Vackra dagar utforskar Joyce Carol Oates sina protagonisters hemliga, intima och dolda inre liv. Människor som, likt de flesta av oss, tvingas stå upp för sig själva genom modiga och ibland oåterkalleliga val. Läsaren får bland annat ta del av O...

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Whitey McClaren är före detta borgmästare och en respekterad man i samhället där han bor. När han en dag stannar bilen för att hindra två poliser som brutalt misshandlar en man, slutar det med att han själv blir angripen. Den korta tid som återstå...

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From one of America's most renowned storytellers comes a novel about love and deceit, and lust and redemption, against a background of child abductions in the affluent suburbs of Detroit.

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I Joyce Carol Oates novell Nattsidan visar hon prov på sin skicklighet som berättare av såväl skräcklitteratur som kortprosa, två sidor hos den den ständigt nobelpristippade författaren som varit mindre uppmärksammade. Nattsidan utspelar sig under...

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Flattered by the attentions of a senator she has met at a Fourth of July beach party on Grayling Island, Kelly Kelleher accepts a ride from him, taking a first step toward her final confrontation with death.

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Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), av Hollywood lanserad som den amerikanska Drömflickan, är förmodligen en av 1900-talets mest omskrivna kvinnor: ett resultat av hennes skönhet, sexuella utstrålning, talang som komedienn och sångerska, hennes trassliga ...

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Joyce Carol Oates's novel is a portrait of a culture hypnotized by its own myths and the shattering reality of the personal effects it had on the woman who became Marilyn Monroe.

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A brilliant and thought-provoking novel about family, loyalty and betrayal Once Id been Daddys favourite. Before something terrible happened. Violet Rue is the baby of the seven Kerrigan children and adores her big brothers. Whats more, she knows ...

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A book of one generation rolled into the other where, as the characters advance in reaching their destiny however small, they are always setbacks and stumbling blocks, not allowing them to see the light at the end of the tunnel. It seeks to remind...

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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 in a tank top, denim cutoffs, and high-heeled sandals. Not with her twelve-year-old dau...

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From Joyce Carol Oates, literary icon and author of BLONDE, now a major motion picture, come four psychologically daring and chillingly suspenseful stories where women face threats both past and present. A Pennsylvania academic unearths a terrifyi...

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This novel is from the author of Big Mouth and Ugly Girl.

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A wealthy and notorious clan, the Bellefleurs live in a region not unlike the Adirondacks, in an enormous mansion on the shores of mythic Lake Noir. They own vast lands and profitable businesses, they employ their neighbors, and they influence the...

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The Stoker Award-winning chilling anthology of 18 short stories in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson, collecting today's best horror writers. Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, E...

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Matt Donaghy is the class joker and Ursula Riggs is the misfit loner. Neither knows the other. But when Matt is arrested on a charge of threatening to blow up the school and massacre the students, Ursula is the only one who sees through the hyster...

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A tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her method Joyce Carol Oates is widely regarded as one of America's greatest contemporary literary figures. Havi...

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You will not read a novel more enthralling, more moving, more unforgettably illumined by profoundly human truth than this story of the rise, the fall, and the ultimate redemption of an American family. That family is the Mulvaneys, seemingly bless...

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A mesmerizing novel that examines grief, faith, justice, and the atrocities of war through the story of a young girl's disappearance in a small adirondack town Zeno mayfield's daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of t...

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From the author of Blonde, The Falls and We Were the Mulvaneys, this new novel takes in the themes of race, immigration, family and social mobility, and is Joyce Carol Oates at her storytelling best. The Gravediggers Daughter tells the tale of Reb...

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In Salthill-on-Hudson, everyone is rich, beautiful, and middle aged. But when Adam Berendt, a charismatic, mysterious sculptor dies in a brash act of heroism, shock waves rock the town. Incisive, insightful, and never predictable, this is a unique...

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Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America's most acclaimed writers.

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En skräckens mästare, en kontroversiell och självutlämnande poet, en jazzålderns främste skildrare och en skarpögd och älskad samtidsförfattare - här hittar du fyra amerikanska storheters sällsamma och suggestiva berättelser om livet och döden, om...

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Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America’s most acclaimed writers. A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically ...

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