Give Me Your Heart : Tales of Mystery and Suspense
By Joyce Carol OatesAn Otto Penzler BookThe need for love--obsessive, self-destructive, unpredictable--takes us to forbidden places, as in the chilling world of "Give Me Your Heart," a new collection of stories by the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates.In the suspenseful "Strip Poker," a reckless adolescent girl must find a way of turning the tables on a gathering of increasingly threatening young men--Can she "outplay" them? In the award-winning "Smother!" a young woman's nightmare memory of childhood brings trouble on her professor-mother--Which of them will "win"? In "Split/Brain" a woman who has blundered into a lethal situation confronts the possibility of saving herself--Will she take it? In "The First Husband," a jealous man discovers that his wife seems to have lied about her first marriage, and exacts a cruel revenge, years after the fact. In these and other powerful tales, children veer beyond their parents' control, wives and husbands wake up to find that they hardly know each other, haunted pasts intrude upon uncertain futures, and those who bring us the most harm may be the nearest at hand.In ten razor-sharp stories, National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates shows that the most deadly mysteries often begin at home.
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Book details
- Hardcover
- 260 pages
- English
- 0547385463
- 9780547385464
About Joyce Carol Oates
joyce carol oates is a recipient of the national book award and the pen/malamud award for excellence in short fiction. she is also the recipient of the 200 Read More about Joyce Carol Oates
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