Joyce Carol Oates
1) Butcher
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, “Father of Gyno-Psychiatry,” as he ascends from professional anonymity to national renown. Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics, where he reigns. There, he is allowed to continue his practice, unchecked for decades, making a name for himself by focusing...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their community; a man returns from the dead to haunt his grieving wife; a young mother finds herself captivated by her own motherhood. In the collection's longest story, a much-praised writer cruelly experiments with "drafts" of his...
3) American gothic tales (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): / edited by Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
1996. viii, 544 p. cm.
Language
English
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