New York Times Bestselling Author
A gripping and moving new collection of stories which re-imagines the meaning of loss—often through violent means
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- Ecco
- Carton Qty: 28
- Selling Territory: W
- 25,000
- PUBLISHING HISTORY
- Ecco hc 9780061996528
- Subsidiary Rights: First Serial, UK, Translation, Audio: Ecco; Dramatic: John Hawkins and Associates, Inc.
- On Sale: 9/14/2010
- Fiction
- Tr 9780061996528 $25.99 ($29.99)
- 384 pages; 6 x 9
- Model ISBN: 9780061704314
Dear Husband,
• Ecco will also publish the trade paperback edition of Little Bird of Heaven in September 2010.
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• National Print Features and Reviews
• National Radio Campaign, Including NPR
• Online Media Campaign
• Author Appearances in New Jersey, New York City, Philadelphia, and Upon Request
• Academic and Library Marketing, Including Galley Mailings
• Online Promotion, Including Advertising and Galley Giveaways
• Reader’s Edition Available
• Author Website: jco.usfca.edu
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Little Bird of Heaven
Joyce Carol Oates
- Hardcover
- 9780061829833
- 9/15/2009
- $25.99 ($33.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
Little Bird of Heaven LP
Joyce Carol Oates
- Large Print
- 9780061885945
- 9/15/2009
- $25.99 ($33.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
In Rough Country
Joyce Carol Oates
- Trade PB
- 9780061963988
- 6/29/2010
- $14.99 ($16.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
Dear Husband,
Joyce Carol Oates
- Trade PB
- 9780061704321
- 4/6/2010
- $13.99 ($15.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
My Sister, My Love
Joyce Carol Oates
- Trade PB
- 9780061547492
- 6/9/2009
- $15.99 ($19.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
The Gravedigger's Daughter
Joyce Carol Oates
- Hardcover
- 9780061236822
- 5/29/2007
- $26.95 ($34.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
The Gravedigger's Daughter
Joyce Carol Oates
- Trade PB
- 9780061236839
- 4/1/2008
- $15.99 ($17.25 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
Black Girl/White Girl
Joyce Carol Oates
- Trade PB
- 9780061125652
- 5/29/2007
- $13.95 ($17.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
Missing Mom
Joyce Carol Oates
- Trade PB
- 9780060816223
- 8/22/2006
- $14.95 ($18.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
The Falls Unabridged CD
Joyce Carol Oates
- Audio
- 9780060741884
- Reader: Anna Fields
- Media: CDs
- 9/14/2004
- $39.95 ($42.95 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
The Tattooed Girl
Joyce Carol Oates
- Trade PB
- 9780061136047
- 5/29/2007
- $13.99 ($17.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
I'll Take You There
Joyce Carol Oates
- Trade PB
- 9780060501181
- 9/16/2003
- $13.99 ($17.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
Middle Age: A Romance
Joyce Carol Oates
- Trade PB
- 9780060934903
- 10/1/2002
- $14.95 ($18.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
Wild Nights!
Joyce Carol Oates
- Trade PB
- 9780061434822
- 3/31/2009
- $13.99 ($17.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
High Lonesome
Joyce Carol Oates
- Trade PB
- 9780060501204
- 5/29/2007
- $19.95 ($25.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
I Am No One You Know
Joyce Carol Oates
- Trade PB
- 9780060592899
- 4/5/2005
- $13.99 ($17.99 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
- Trade PB
- 9780061227998
- 10/14/2008
- $16.95 ($18.50 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
The Faith of a Writer
Joyce Carol Oates
- Trade PB
- 9780060565541
- 9/14/2004
- $11.99 ($15.50 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
Uncensored: Views & (Re)views
Joyce Carol Oates
- Trade PB
- 9780060775575
- 4/4/2006
- $13.95 ($16.50 Can.)
- Marketing Code: AV
Also Available
Sourland
Joyce Carol Oates
- E-Book
- 9780062010728
- 9/14/2010
- $19.99
Little Bird Of Heaven
Joyce Carol Oates
- Trade PB
- 9780061829840
- 8/31/2010
- $14.99 ($16.99)
Extras
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"Although American fiction offers few distinctive voices at present, there is no mistaking a Joyce Carol Oates story for anyone else's. You could tear off the cover of her latest collection, Sourland, and identify these stories from their opening lines alone...Not just their virtuosity but also their aura of menace make them hers...We think of Oates, like Poe, as a master of terror, but her real mastery is in almost never depicting a strong emotion in isolation...Oates makes for a caustic companion in Sourland - a fearless experimenter forcing the reader ahead of her at knifepoint."
- Los Angeles Times
"Few writers are as energetic and prolific as Joyce Carol Oates...hers is an intensely truthful, explicitly emotional yet sometimes nightmarishly heightened world...This book is angry and tough and deeply, viscerally unsettling...throttlingly passionate prose...Oates is the most agile and effective of poets, able to pin down a moment while never compromising on pace or atmosphere...This collection could be used as a master class in the art of pure, suspenseful storytelling...Oates is a dangerous writer in the best sense of the word, one who takes risks almost obsessively with energy and relish. For a writer in her early 70s, she continues to be wonderfully, unnervingly anarchic, experimental, angry. As if her aim were not to satisfy or entertain - though she always does both - but to do the vandalistic prose equivalent of spray-painting or setting fire to bins in public parks. Never has she done this more relentlessly - and exhaustingly - than in this dazzling collection."
- New York Times
"Making sense of life in a cataclysmic inner and outer landscape has been Joyce Carol Oates' obsession for five decades. This evocative new collection shows just how much sense she can make of it now."
- Chicago Tribune
"...Innovative, brilliant...there are sentences that leave a deeply sensuous pleasure in their wake..."
- San Francisco Chronicle
"...Splendid yet shocking...Each of the tales does what only Oates can do - which is take us, easily, where we do not wish to go, rushing us headlong toward something cruel and unspeakable, something we don't want to know and are now bound never to forget. Gift or curse, it is Oates' great talent...These are devastating pieces -made more so by their brevity. For, if there is anything more disturbing than a Joyce Carol Oates novel, it is one of her short stories - with its ability to condense her dark intent to a handful of images that will be forever engraved upon our psyches."
- Buffalo News
"Oates's fiction has the curious, morbid draw of a flaming car wreck. It's a testament to Oates's talent that she can nearly always force the reader to look."
- Publishers Weekly
"...Vivid...the work reflects a delicious boundary-crossing mix of literary artistry and genre-writing skill...This famously prolific writer continues to surprise us, and that in itself is something to celebrate."
- Library Journal
"Oates is a master of the dark tale-stories of the hunted and the hunter, of violence, trauma, and deep psychic wounds. Brilliant in her disclosure of the workings of minds under threat, Oates also possesses a heightened sense of the body's expressiveness, from a man's gait to the smell of his breath to the strength of his grip to the intensity of his stare. Oates grows more insightful, virtuosic, and audacious in her confrontations with fear, pain, and death. Her latest stories of sexual mayhem, family crisis, and shattered identity are barely contained beasts of narration, snorting, pawing, and pulling against the confines of the page...This is a trenchant book of "cruel fairy tales" in which people are severely tested, profoundly punished, and tragically transformed."
- Booklist (starred review)