Joyce Carol Oates

American Appetites is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, that is about a couple in upstate New York. It tells of the secrets each harbors and what will happen when they finally get exposed.

A young woman tumbles into a nightmare of decadent desire and corrupted innocence in a superb novella of suspense from National Book Award–winner Joyce Carol Oates. Art and arson, the poetry of D. H. Lawrence and pulp pornography, hero-worship and sexual debasement, totems and taboos mix and mutate into a startling, …