Joyce Carol Oates

Expensive, affluent, yes - but morally bankrupt - this is the suburbanite society from which Joyce Carol Oates carves out an electrifying novel of Gothic suspense. EXPENSIVE PEOPLE is the journal of Richard Elwood, an eighteen-year-old looking back with disaffection at his childhood in a succession of wealthy …

Elles se rencontrent au cœur des années soixante-dix, camarades de chambre dans un collège prestigieux où elles entament leur cursus universitaire. Genna, descendante du fondateur du collège, est la fille d'un couple très " radical chic ", riche, vaguement hippie, opposant à la guerre du Vietnam et résolument à la …

"Later, I would think of it as crossing over. From a known territory into an unknown. From a place where people know you to a place where people only think they know you." Sometimes Franky Pierson has a hard time dealing with life. Like when her parents separate and her mother vanishes, Franky wants to believe that …