• The Sacrifice is a 2015 novel by the American writer Joyce Carol Oates. Set in blighted urban New Jersey in the 1980s, it follows a young Black woman...
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  • horror novel by Charlie Higson Sacrifice, a 2012 fantasy novel by Cayla Kluver and the final book in the Legacy series The Sacrifice (Oates novel), a 2015...
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  • fiction novel by Joyce Carol Oates that presents a fictionalized take on the life of American actress Marilyn Monroe. Oates insists that the novel is a work...
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    uncle was the naturalist and African explorer Frank Oates. Oates lived in Putney from 1885–1891. He was one of the first pupils to attend the nearby Willington...
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    Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays...
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  • Them (stylized in all lowercase) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, the third in her "Wonderland Quartet" following A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967)...
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  • Book Review as "the world's first postmodern Gothic novel". Oates, Joyce Carol (March 5, 2013). The Accursed. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780062231703. Stephen...
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    List of the published work of Joyce Carol Oates, American writer. With Shuddering Fall (1964) A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967) Expensive People (1968)...
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  • If Beale Street Could Talk (category Novels set in the 1970s)
    the emotional bonds holding two African American families together. Reviewing the novel in The New York Times in 1974, the novelist Joyce Carol Oates...
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  • Wonderland is a 1971 novel by Joyce Carol Oates, the fourth in her "Wonderland Quartet" following A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967), Expensive People...
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    Zombie is a 1995 novel by American writer Joyce Carol Oates, which explores the mind of a serial killer. It was based on the life of Jeffrey Dahmer. Dahmer...
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  • Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. is a 2020 novel by American writer Joyce Carol Oates, about a man who was killed by the police and the aftermath of his death...
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  • The Gravedigger's Daughter is a 2007 novel by Joyce Carol Oates. It is her 36th published novel. The novel was based on the life of Oates's grandmother...
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  • The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares is a collection of short stories and the title novella by Joyce Carol Oates. Published in 2011 by Mysterious Press...
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  • Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (category Novels by Joyce Carol Oates)
    is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates about a group of teenage girls in upstate New York in the 1950s who form a gang called Foxfire. The book takes the form...
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  • Black Water (novella) (category Novels by Joyce Carol Oates)
    Black Water is a 1992 novella by the American writer and professor Joyce Carol Oates. It is a roman à clef based on the Chappaquiddick incident, in which...
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  • A Garden of Earthly Delights (category Novels by Joyce Carol Oates)
    Garden of Earthly Delights is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, published by Vanguard in 1967. Her second book published, it is the first in her "Wonderland Quartet"...
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  • We Were the Mulvaneys is a novel written by Joyce Carol Oates, and was published in 1996. We Were the Mulvaneys was featured in Oprah's Book Club in January...
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  • notable for its strength and the glowing richness of character and scene. In 1971, Joyce Carol Oates characterized this novel as "our most unpretentious...
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  • The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies is a collection of short stories written by Joyce Carol Oates. It was published in 1974 by Black Sparrow Press...
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    Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce. Parts of it were first serialized in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918...
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  • You Must Remember This (category Novels by Joyce Carol Oates)
    You Must Remember This is a 1987 novel by Joyce Carol Oates. It tells the story of Enid Maria, a girl who falls in love with her uncle, a professional...
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  • Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (category Novels by Joyce Carol Oates)
    Heart is a 1990 novel by American novelist Joyce Carol Oates. The title is taken from "In the Desert", a poem by Stephen Crane. Oates's novel was nominated...
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  • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? (category Works by Joyce Carol Oates)
    frequently anthologized short story written by Joyce Carol Oates. The story first appeared in the Fall 1966 edition of Epoch magazine. It was inspired by...
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  • The Cabin at the End of the World is a 2018 horror novel by American writer Paul G. Tremblay. The novel won the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker...
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  • in O'Connor, Oates, and Styron," The Midwest Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Spring), pp. 383–397. Cologne-Brookes, Gavin (1995) The Novels of William Styron:...
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  • Mudwoman (category Novels by Joyce Carol Oates)
    skin." Oates wrote the novel in response to the dream, and during a period that was hard for Oates: her husband died while she was drafting the novel. Kevin...
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    Carol Oates wrote of the book "it is exceptionally good-in fact, one of the strongest and most haunting of English novels", while noting that the reputation...
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    and large-scale tragedy. Joyce Carol Oates has described it as "Dostoevsky's most confused and violent novel, and his most satisfactorily 'tragic' work...
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  • Son of the Morning is a 1978 novel by American author Joyce Carol Oates. The book was first published on August 1, 1978 through Vanguard Press. Elsa Vickery...
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