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1	The Gravedigger's Daughter more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates In this "New York Times" bestseller, Oates has created a masterpiece of domestic yet mythic realism, at once emotionally engaging and intellectually provocative: an intimately observed testimony to the resilience of the individual. see all copies from $2.84! new only from $8.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Oxford Book of American Short Stories more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates (Editor) This collection of 56 stories, edited by Joyce Carol Oates, features lesser-known short fiction by O'Connor, Cheever, Washington Irving, Zora Neale Hurston, Hemingway, Poe, Kate Chopin, Amy Tan, and Louise Erdrich, among others. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.01! \| first editions \| SVS
3	We Were the Mulvaneys more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates In upstate New York, the Mulvaneys are a wealthy and magnetic family--attractive, charismatic, promising. But after 25 years, the family begins to slide, then fragment, then shatter, and soon there is nothing left of the dynasty. Judd, the youngest of the clan, begins to search for the reasons behind the downfall, and as he uncovers family secrets ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Blonde more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates This fictionalized biography of Marilyn Monroe begins with her adolescent troubles in foster homes after her mother is institutionalized and ends--after she has been disappointed by a series of hopeless men--with her squalid death at 36. In an interview in Publishers Weekly, Joyce Carol Oates says she saw in Monroe "girls of my own background....I ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Falls more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates Niagara Falls in the 1950s is the setting for Joyce Carol Oates's novel. It begins with a shocking event: the suicide of a man married for less than a day, who leaps into the falls and is swept away by the rushing torrent. As his grieving widow, Ariah Littrell, keeps a vigil during the search for his body, she encounters a wealthy local man who, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.09! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Best American Essays of the Century more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates (Editor) Joyce Carol Oates chooses 55, chronologically arranged essays to represent the century's best, including work by Mark Twain, James Baldwin, T. S. Eliot, Susan Sontag, and Mary McCarthy. see all copies from $4.23! new only from $6.92! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Black Water more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates A senator from Massachusetts, who goes unnamed throughout the novel, meets Kelly Kelleher, a young writer from Boston, at a July 4th party in Maine. They leave the party to go to dinner and a motel, but on the way the drunken senator takes the wrong road. When they finally reach the ferry, which is departing as they approach the dock, the senator ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Big Mouth & Ugly Girl more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates Matt Donaghy has always had a big mouth, but it has never gotten him in trouble until the day he is accused of threatening to blow up Rocky River High High School. Ursula Riggs--a.k.a. Ugly Girl--is the only one who knows what Matt said that day, and she is the only one who can help him. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Missing Mom more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates A small upstate New York town is stunned when one of its beloved longtime inhabitants, Gwen Eaton, is murdered by a violent ex-con. The story is narrated by Gwen's daughter Nikki, a reporter for the local paper, who tells her mother's story via a series of talks with the people in Gwen's life, past and present. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	I'll Take You There more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates Joyce Carol Oates's 30th novel, which takes place in the early 1960s, is about a young woman (nameless, though she has given herself the name "Anellia") who grew up on a farm and wins a scholarship to an upstate New York college. In the course of trying to understand the effect on her of her highly dysfunctional family, which includes an absent ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates In a working-class town in upstate New York in the 1950s, five girls form a gang. One of its members, Legs Sadovsky, is their leader, and years later Maddy-Monkey Wirtz tells their story. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.28! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	My Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates "New York Times"-bestselling author Oates is back with this dark, wry, captivating tale, inspired by an unsolved true-crime mystery. see all copies from $8.75! new only from $14.73! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction more books like this by R Cassill With 45 stories, 23 new to this second edition, the popular NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY FICTION provides an abundant selection of fiction from 1960 to the present. Readers will appreciate newly included stories from their favorite authors, as well as the addition of sixteen new writers. Biographical notes on all the writers provide a valuable ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $26.64! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Them more books like this by Oates Based on the family story of one of Oates's own students at the University of Detroit, "Them" chronicles the troubled life of Maureen Wendall, who begins to turn tricks at 16. Beaten by her stepfather, she retreats into catatonia. When she emerges she attends college, seduces a professor, and breaks up his marriage. Meanwhile, her brother Jules ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.26! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Wild Nights!: Stories about the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates A wonderfully bizarre new collection of short stories by Oates, "Wild Nights!" reimagines the final days of five major American writers--Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway. see all copies from $9.91! new only from $13.76! \| SVS
16 view cover	Bellefleur more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates The chronicle of a wealthy, notorious family in the Adirondacks, replete with grotesque characters, a family mansion, and a ghost. Told in an elaborate style that adds to the Gothic sense, Joyce Carol Oates deals out some outrageous symbolism in one of her most popular books. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $40.64! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	You Must Remember This more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates Oates writes about an American family in the 1950s in an ordinary working-class town in upstate New York. Lyle and Hannah are trapped in an unfulfilling marriage, their son Warren is an idealistic misfit, and their daughter Enid Maria enters into an obsessive liaison with her uncle, a professional boxer. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Black Girl/White Girl more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates This painfully intimate depiction of race in America is a double portrait of "black" and "white" in America in the years of crisis following the end of the Vietnam War. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Zombie: 9 more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates This unflinching, unforgettable fictional exploration into the life and mind of a paroled sex offender provides a psychologically astute portrait of the way cold calculation and dark obsession combine to make a serial killer both horrifyingly successful and maddeningly elusive. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $48.28! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Because It is Bitter, and Because It is My Heart more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates In Joyce Carol Oates's twentieth novel, Little Red Garlock, the town bully, has been taunting Iris Courtney about her relationship with Jinx Fairchild. Iris is white, Jinx is black, and the two of them are close friends. Little Red persists in making rude hints about a physical relationship between them, and Jinx finally takes Little Red on in a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.85! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	American Gothic Tales more books like this by Various, Joyce Carol Oates (Editor) More than 40 stories in the best Gothic tradition, beginning with 19th-century authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville, and ending with the present guard including Peter Straub, Anne Rice, and Stephen King. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.61! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Middle Age: A Romance more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates When Adam Berendt dies suddenly, the women in his upstate New York town--many of whom adored him--are devastated. One of them, Augusta Cutler, delves into his past life, and finds that he is not what they had all thought. This is Joyce Carol Oates's 29th novel. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Expensive people more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates Richard Everett, aged 11, shoots and kills his mother with a mail-order gun. He confesses, but is not believed. Seven years later, he is still free, living in a filthy room and growing obese. His mother Nada, a writer, was an elusive woman, gravitating towards the monied people of town. Richard's father, Elwood, worshipped Nada, but was also a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Mysteries of Winterthurn more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates The first paperback reprint since 1986 of the author's favorite among her several acclaimed and controversial Gothic novels. In "Mysteries of Winterthurn," the brilliant young detective-hero Xavier Kilgarvan is confronted with three baffling cases--"The Virgin in the Rose-Bower," "The Devil's Half-Acre," and "The Blood-Stained Gown"--that tax his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.33! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	On boxing more books like this by Joyce Carol Oates A philosophical, cultural look at a sport that Oates says causes the spectator "a repugnance beyond language: a sheerly physical loathing. That it is also, or even primarily, self-loathing goes without saying." She adds, "[B]oxing is for men, and is about men, and IS men. A celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.18! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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