Joyce Carol Oates
82) Jack of Spades
New York Times bestselling author of The Falls, Blonde, and We Were the Mulvaneys, Joyce Carol Oates returns with a dark, wry, satirical tale--inspired by an unsolved American true-crime mystery.
"Dysfunctional families are all alike. Ditto 'survivors.'"
So begins the unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an "infamous" American family. A decade ago
...This wonderfully bizarre new collection of stories by Joyce Carol Oates re-imagines the final days of five major American writers.
Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James and Ernest Hemingway—award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates evokes each of theses literary giants in her latest work of fiction, powerfully and audaciously reinventing the last days of their lives. In subtly nuanced language suggestive of each of
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