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"In the chilling world of Give Me Your Heart, the need for love is obsessive, self-destructive and unpredictable. It takes us to forbidden places, confronts us with gruesome truths, and leads us beyond our control. In the unsettling 'Strip Poker,' a reckless teenage girl must turn the tables on a group of threatening young men. Can she outplay them? In the award-winning 'Smother!' a daughter's nightmarish childhood memory brings trouble to the door of her bourgeois mother. Which of them will win? In 'The First Husband,' a jealous man discovers his wife lied about her first marriage, and plans a cruel revenge. Will he go through with it? In these and other powerful tales, children move beyond their parents' reach, wives and husbands wake up as strangers, haunted pasts intrude upon uncertain futures, and lives hang in the balance. In ten razor-sharp stories, National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates shows that the most deadly mysteries often begin at home."
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An American literary giant, Joyce Carol Oates is the author of over 70 works and the winner of a host of prizes including the National Book Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, the Commonwealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature, and the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement. She also has been nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University. She lives in New Jersey.
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Oates latest collection consists of ten short stories (listed at the end), all previously published elsewhere, exploring dark themes such as jealousy, obsession, and murderous impulses.
Many of the stories are set in the same regions of New York and New Jersey, allowing the reader to make links between them and immerse themselves in Oates world. Stephen King does a similar thing with his Maine-set tales and I think fans of that writer would enjoy this collection.
The longer stories worked best and I particularly enjoyed 'Strip Poker', in which a young girl is out of her depth having agreed to go to a deserted cabin with some drunken older men, and 'The Spill' a fifties-set story about a second wife and the family she has married into. 'Bleeed' is a terrifying tale about child abuse and murder, in which the backstory cleverly manipulates the reader's perceptions about the nightmarish present situation.
I read the Kindle edition of this book and at times the text was mangled so as to be unreadable (e.g. "He was lifted, thrown down, scramcrab-likentic and crablike on the floor" and "Sweat droplets like tearor -six is twenty-five orsix"). This happened far too often and is something the publisher should have sorted out before release. The Kindle edition also lacks a copyright page detailing where the stories were first published.
Give me your Heart
Split/Brain
The First Husband
Strip Poker (which previously appeared in the great poker-themed anthology Dead Man's Hand)
Smother
Tetanus
The Spill
Nowhere
Bleeed
Vena Cava
Many of the stories are set in the same regions of New York and New Jersey, allowing the reader to make links between them and immerse themselves in Oates world. Stephen King does a similar thing with his Maine-set tales and I think fans of that writer would enjoy this collection.
The longer stories worked best and I particularly enjoyed 'Strip Poker', in which a young girl is out of her depth having agreed to go to a deserted cabin with some drunken older men, and 'The Spill' a fifties-set story about a second wife and the family she has married into. 'Bleeed' is a terrifying tale about child abuse and murder, in which the backstory cleverly manipulates the reader's perceptions about the nightmarish present situation.
I read the Kindle edition of this book and at times the text was mangled so as to be unreadable (e.g. "He was lifted, thrown down, scramcrab-likentic and crablike on the floor" and "Sweat droplets like tearor -six is twenty-five orsix"). This happened far too often and is something the publisher should have sorted out before release. The Kindle edition also lacks a copyright page detailing where the stories were first published.
Give me your Heart
Split/Brain
The First Husband
Strip Poker (which previously appeared in the great poker-themed anthology Dead Man's Hand)
Smother
Tetanus
The Spill
Nowhere
Bleeed
Vena Cava
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Joyce Carol Oates continues her marvellous stories .Her book kept my husband and me totally absorbed .We are constantly amazed at her ingenuity and her last story about a returning soldier from war is so relevant and heart rendering, as are all the stories.We don't normally read short stories but all were wonderful with twists and turns.
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