Oates, Joyce Carol

Twenty-one stories of obsession with loss, fear of betrayal, and sudden violence.

John Reddy Heart, a young man who, since rolling into town behind the wheel of a salmon-colored Cadillac at the age of eleven, has stolen the hearts of Willowsville's teenage girls, earned the worship of its boys, and the envy of its men, attains the status of a myth when he becomes the object of a statewide manhunt.

Anthology of gothic fiction, spanning two centuries of American writing from forty-six authors, including Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Shirley Jackson, and H.P. Lovecraft.

Collects thirty-eight pieces of nonfiction writing by American novelist Joyce Carol Oates, including book reviews; homages to works of literature including Emily Bront?'s "Wuthering Heights" and such figures as boxers Jack Johnson and Muhammad Ali; and revisits to her own works, including the novels "them" and "A Garden of Earthly Delights.".

A collection of twelve short stories for young people including "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been," "Life After High School," and "How I Contemplated the World.".

The unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an infamous American family. A decade ago the Rampikes were destroyed by the murder of Skyler's six-year-old ice-skating champion sister, Bliss, and the media scrutiny that followed. Part investigation into the unsolved murder; part elegy for the lost Bliss and for Skyler's own lost childhood; and part corrosively funny expose of the pretensions of upper-middle-class American suburbia, this captivating novel explores with unexpected sympathy and subtlety the intimate lives of those who dwell in Tabloid Hell.

Teena Maguire took a shortcut home with her twelve-year-daughter on the night of the Fourth of July. After their brutal gang rape she lived to regret this decision and in fact she lived to regret her life.

Blaming herself for the car accident on the Tappan Zee Bridge that killed her mother, fifteen-year-old Jenna undergoes a difficult physical and emotional recovery.

During the 1950s, five high school girls in upstate New York form a gang called Foxfire.

Sixteen-year-old Darren Flynn, a popular, good-looking high school athlete who lacks self-confidence, learns that his jock friends are hatching a revenge act against their English teacher for failing a member of the swim team.