Chamberlin Free Public Library Catalog

Cardiff, by the sea : four novellas of suspense /

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-

Cardiff, by the sea : four novellas of suspense / - First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition, First edition. - ix, 402 pages ; 24 cm

Cardiff, by the sea -- Miao Dao -- Phantomwise: 1972 -- The surviving child.

"From one of the most important contemporary American writers, Cardiff, by the Sea is a bold, haunting collection of four previously unpublished novellas. Starting with the title novella - in which a romantic-minded young art historian is led to (re)discover a terrifying trauma after inheriting property in faraway Cardiff, Maine - through to "The Surviving Child" - which finds the young new wife of a famous poet's widow haunted by the dead poet's voice dancing in the wind, an inexplicably befouled well, and a compulsive draw to the same garage that already took two lives - Cardiff, by the Sea is ceaselessly sinister. In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful novellas, Joyce Carol Oates writes about women facing threats past and present"--Provided by publisher.

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Young women--Crimes against--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.


Novellas.
Suspense fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Psychological fiction.
Novellas.

PS3565.A8 / C35 2020

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