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Give Me Your Heart : Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates (2011, Hardcover)

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ISBN: 0547385463. Author: Oates, Joyce Carol. Release Date: 2011-01-07. Condition: New.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

ISBN-100547385463

ISBN-139780547385464

eBay Product ID (ePID)81804605

Product Key Features

Book TitleGive Me Your Heart : Tales of Mystery and Suspense

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Thrillers / Suspense

Publication Year2011

GenreFiction

AuthorJoyce Carol Oates

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight13.4 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2010-005752

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Table Of ContentContents Give Me Your Heart 1 Split/Brain 15 The First Husband 22 Strip Poker 56 Smother 83 Tetanus 120 The Spill 139 Nowhere 180 Bleeed 219 Vena Cava 239

SynopsisAn Otto Penzler Book The need for love--obsessive, self-destructive, unpredictable--takes us to forbidden places, as in the chilling world of Give Me Your Heart , a new collection of stories by the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates. In the suspenseful "Strip Poker," a reckless adolescent girl must find a way of turning the tables on a gathering of increasingly threatening young men--Can she "outplay" them? In the award-winning "Smother!" a young woman's nightmare memory of childhood brings trouble on her professor-mother--Which of them will "win"? In "Split/Brain" a woman who has blundered into a lethal situation confronts the possibility of saving herself--Will she take it? In "The First Husband," a jealous man discovers that his wife seems to have lied about her first marriage, and exacts a cruel revenge, years after the fact. In these and other powerful tales, children veer beyond their parents' control, wives and husbands wake up to find that they hardly know each other, haunted pasts intrude upon uncertain futures, and those who bring us the most harm may be the nearest at hand. In ten razor-sharp stories, National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates shows that the most deadly mysteries often begin at home., A new collection of mesmerizing, macabre tales from "one of the most important living American writers" (Peter Straub, The New Statesman )., An Otto Penzler Book The need for love--obsessive, self-destructive, unpredictable--takes us to forbidden places, as in the chilling world of Give Me Your Heart , a new collection of stories by the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates. In the suspenseful "Strip Poker," a reckless adolescent girl must find a way of turning the tables on a gathering of increasingly threatening young men--Can she "outplay" them? In the award-winning "Smother " a young woman's nightmare memory of childhood brings trouble on her professor-mother--Which of them will "win"? In "Split/Brain" a woman who has blundered into a lethal situation confronts the possibility of saving herself--Will she take it? In "The First Husband," a jealous man discovers that his wife seems to have lied about her first marriage, and exacts a cruel revenge, years after the fact. In these and other powerful tales, children veer beyond their parents' control, wives and husbands wake up to find that they hardly know each other, haunted pasts intrude upon uncertain futures, and those who bring us the most harm may be the nearest at hand. In ten razor-sharp stories, National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates shows that the most deadly mysteries often begin at home.

LC Classification NumberPS3565.A8G58 2011