Nikki è una donna single che si porta nell'animo un bagaglio doloroso di non detti e frustrazioni nei confronti di una madre a cui troppe volte non ha avuto il coraggio di rivelarsi. Proprio per questo, forse, quando Gwen, la mamma, muore in circostanze tragiche, uccisa da un pregiudicato, Nikki viene travolta da una …
Black Girl / White Girl is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates first published in 2006. It takes the form of an untitled 300 page manuscript written in 1990 by Generva Meade, a white historian, who truthfully recounts the events which happened during her freshman year at a prestigious liberal college in 1974-75, and Meade's …
Them is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, the third in the Wonderland Quartet she inaugurated with A Garden of Earthly Delights. It was first published by Vanguard in 1969 and it won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1970. Many years and many awards later, Oates surmised that them and Blonde were the works she …
My Sister, My Love is a 2008 novel by Joyce Carol Oates, her 37th published novel. It reimagines the JonBenét Ramsey murder, with the ice-skating champion Bliss Rampike standing in for JonBenét, and is narrated by her surviving older brother, Skyler Rampike. The book received generally positive reviews, with USA Today …
Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My 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 for best work of fiction in the 1990 National Book Awards.
L'età di mezzo è un romanzo della scrittrice nord americana Joyce Carol Oates che rappresenta in modo incisivo, comico e nello stesso tempo profondo, la società statunitense upper class alle soglie del XXI secolo La storia è ambientata a Salthill-on-Hudson, una cittadina vicino a Manhattan, dove tutti gli abitanti …