In her bewitching 30th novel, I'll Take You There, Joyce Carol Oates returns again to neurotic female post-adolescence. The unnamed narrator attends an upstate New York university in the early 1960s. In those times of tightly prescribed...
“A writer without mercy. . this book is like a wire stretched across the throat.” —Oliver Stone
In an epic novel that does for Hollywood what Nashville did for Nashville, I’m Losing You follows the rich and famous and the down and out as...
Set in the future — a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited — J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying.
Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have...
Winner of the 1976 National Book Award, J R is a biting satire about the many ways in which capitalism twists the American spirit into something dangerous, yet pervasive and unassailable. At the center of the novel is a hilarious eleven year old...
Elle est libre. Elle offre son corps sans façons. Et pourtant, à chaque histoire d’amour, elle s’affole et s’enfuit toujours la première. Il est ardent, entier, généreux. Mais les femmes qu’il célèbre s’étiolent les unes après les...
En décembre 1858, refusé par l'institution jésuite de Vaugirard, Jack, fils adultérin d'Ida de Barancy, une demi-mondaine, échoue dans le collège insalubre du mulâtre Moronval. Ida succombe au charme d'un des...