Oates's latest collection explores certain favorite Oatesian themes, primary among them violence, loss, and privilege. Three of the stories feature white, upper-class, educated widows whose sheltered married lives have left them unprepared for...
Meet Quentin P.
He is a problem for his professor father and his loving mother, though of course they do not believe the charge (sexual molestation of a minor) that got him in that bit of trouble.
He is a challenge for his...
Situada en la mítica ciudad de Sparta, en Nueva York, Ave del paraíso es una punzante y vívida combinación de romance erótico y violencia trágica en la Norteamérica de finales del siglo XX. Cuando Zoe Kruller, una...
In 1936 the Schwarts, an immigrant family desperate to escape Nazi Germany, settle in a small town in upstate New York, where the father, a former high school teacher, is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker....
«Le hipnotizará y le conmoverá… Un libro más dolorosamente autorrevelador de lo que la Oates novelista o crítica se haya atrevido a publicar jamás.» – Ann Hulbert, The New York Times Book Review
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