Oates, Joyce Carol

Eleven-year-old Josie and her mother come to live off the charity of an aunt in upstate New York, where Josie falls victim to the perverted attentions of her older cousin, Jared, Jr.

Over the course of thirty years, from the sixties through the nineties, Broke Heart Blues charts the rise and fall - and ultimate call to reckoning - of John Reddy Heart, through the myriad voices of those who find in him their whipping boy, savior, dream lover, and confessor.

Presents a fictionalized account of the life of actress Marilyn Monroe.

In 1936 the Schwarts, an immigrant family desperate to escape Nazi Germany, settle in a small town in upstate New York, where the father, a former high school teacher, is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. After local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty result in unspeakable tragedy, the gravedigger's daughter, Rebecca, begins her astonishing pilgrimage into America, an odyssey of erotic risk and imaginative daring, ingenious self-invention, and, in the end, a bittersweet - but very American - triumph. You are born here, they will not hurt you - so the gravedigger has predicted for his daughter, which will turn out to be true.

Genna Meade looks back from the perspective of fifteen years to 1975 when, as a student at an exclusive women's liberal college near Philadelphia, she tried to befriend one of the school's few African-American students who was the victim of racially-motivated harassment.

In early-twentieth-century Princeton, New Jersey, the brother of a bride who was abducted and seduced right before her wedding by a dangerously compelling man, sets out to find her and crosses paths with Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, Upton Sinclair, and other notable people while searching for the woman and the European prince who might actually be the devil.

A collection of ten short stories of mystery and suspense by American author Joyce Carol Oates.

A saga of the Bellefleur family--a prolific group whose members include millionaires, a murderer, seekers, and various eccentrics--as seen through the eyes of the clan's youngest member, Germaine,.