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vi, 517 pages ; 24 cm
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"Two hitmen in a depressed rust belt town struggle with a job gone wrong. A girl witnesses a horrifying accident and carries it with her for the rest of her life. Medical students bring a severed foot to a college party. Five-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Joyce Carol Oates has made a career of exploring the forbidden corners of human experience, and the stories collected here, spanning her first three decades as a writer, are among her most unsettling and unforgettable works to date. These tales have not appeared in any form this century--until now; formally fresh and endlessly experimental, they show a writer boldly engaging with disturbing truths and terrifying possibilities, and deconstructing the tropes and expectations of traditional prose writing as she does so. But beyond their stylistic ingenuity, these are creepy, suspenseful stories that cut straight to the bone; their darkness will linger long after the final page is turned."--
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Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Death of Mrs. Sheer
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- In the warehouse
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- By the river
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Queen of the night
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Revenge of the foot, 1970
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Doll
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Little wife
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Yarrow