Oates, Joyce Carol

A nameless young student, though gifted with a penetrating intelligence, finds herself driven to obsession when she falls passionately in love with a brilliant yet elusive African-American philosophy student.

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.

Presents Joyce Carol Oates's 1966 short story inspired by a magazine article about a teenage killer in Arizona, followed by critical essays and reviews written in response to the story and its film adaptation.

Contains a collection of new and selected short stories by National Book Award winning author Joyce Carol Oates.

The family of Dirk Burnaby, a New York State lawyer representing victims of Love Canal, and his wife, Ariah, whose first husband widowed her on their wedding night by jumping into Niagara Falls, is pulled apart by Dirk's obsession with his case and Ariah's fear that her history will repeat itself.

Contains a collection of nineteen stories that portray the varied lives of several people including a woman who finds happiness in an adulterous relationship and a girl who survives an abduction by a serial killer.

When Little Reynard, the only orange kitten in his litter, meets some foxes, he feels more at home with them than with his own family.