Give Me Your Heart - Paperback

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by Joyce Carol Oates (Author)

"Haunting . . . Written in the author's classic, clear style, these narratives enchant."--Boston Globe

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 ten razor-sharp stories, 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.

"Dread, in fiction, can be a magnificent thing . . . Oates isn't writing horror fiction, but she might as well be. Her stories pack the same kind of visceral wallop."--Los Angeles Times

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Haunting . . . Written in the author s classic, clear style, these narratives enchant. Boston Globe
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 ten razor-sharp stories, 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.
Dread, in fiction, can be a magnificent thing . . . Oates isn t writing horror fiction, but she might as well be. Her stories pack the same kind of visceral wallop. Los Angeles Times
JOYCE CAROL OATES is the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and the winner of the National Book Award. Among her major works are We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, The Falls, and, under the imprint of Otto Penzler, Rape: A Love Story, Beasts, The Female of the Species, and The Museum of Dr. Moses.
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