Cardiff, by the Sea

By: Joyce Carol Oates

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Paperback | 8 January 2021

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416 Pages

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A collection of four never-before-seen novellas. In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful pieces, Joyce Carol Oates writes about women facing threats past and present.

From Joyce Carol Oates come four psychologically daring and chillingly suspenseful stories where women face threats both past and present.

A Pennsylvania academic unearths a terrifying trauma from her past after inheriting a house in Cardiff, Maine from a stranger. A lonely pubescent girl befriends a feral cat that protects her from the increasingly aggressive men that surround her.

A brilliant but shy college sophomore realizes she is pregnant and, distraught, allows a distinguished visiting professor to take her under his wing. And a widower remarries, but finds his young bride haunted by his dead wife's voice dancing in the wind.

Industry Reviews

'A stylish, suspenseful quartet of novellas tinged with the supernatural'
Daily Mail

'Oates's brand of horror has never required the invocation of other worlds: This world is terrible enough for her. Everything she writes, in whatever genre, has an air of dread, because she deals in vulnerabilities and inevitabilities, in the desperate needs that drive people ... to their fates. A sense of helplessness is the essence of horror, and Oates conveys that feeling as well as any writer around'
New York Times Book Review

'Both haunting and sublime'
Literary Review

'An unsettling read worth every resulting jump in the night ... [Oates is a] literary goddess'
Daily Mail

'As usual with Oates, it is horribly readable, but driven by something disturbingly like genuine misanthropy'
Sunday Times

'Oates chillingly depicts the darkness lurking within the everyday'
Sunday Express

'A writer of extraordinary strengths'
Guardian

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