{"title":"Joyce Carol Oates","description":"Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of a National Humanities Medal awarded by President Barack Obama, the National Book Critics Circle's Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award, the National Book Award in Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina, the Cino Del Duca World Prize, and is a five-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the bestsellers Blonde and We Were the Mulvaneys. She is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Emerita at Princeton University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2024 she won the Raymond Chandler Lifetime Achievement Award given to \"a master of the thriller and noir literary genre.\"","products":[{"product_id":"double-trouble-hardcover","title":"Double Trouble - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA double dose of gripping psychological suspense, pairing two complete novels and two rare short stories, from six-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Joyce Carol Oates. Two serial killers - one female, one male - murder in the name of a higher cause. Ideal for fans of Alice Munro, Ann Patchett and Anne Tyler.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCelebrating 40 Years of pseudonymous suspense from JOYCE CAROL OATES \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFour decades ago, acclaimed literary author Joyce Carol Oates penned her first novel of psychological suspense under the name \"Rosamond Smith.\" In the Smith books, Oates explored themes of betrayal and deception, lust and murder, through stories involving twins, doubles, and hidden second identities - initially, keeping her own double identity a secret. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHard Case Crime is proud to bring these extraordinary works of crime fiction, long unavailable in bookstores, back into print in definitive double editions, each pairing two complete novels and two never-before-collected Oates short stories, all linked thematically, to weave a sinister web filled with dark reflections. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn This Volume... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA female serial killer seeks refuge in her twin sister's home in STARR BRIGHT WILL BE WITH YOU SOON, while a male serial killer murders for the woman he craves in SOUL\/MATE -- and the echoes continue in the rare short stories \"The Murderess\" and \"An Unsolved Crime.\"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101128593631,"sku":"9781835417218","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/0dkCe9-3gr9781835417218.webp?v=1781068313"},{"product_id":"fox-paperback","title":"Fox - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - An \"enthralling\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e) and \"remarkably engrossing\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, Editors' Choice) novel of literary and psychological suspense about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charismatic, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school--by legendary author Joyce Carol Oates \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Eerie, shocking, provoking, and beautifully written.\"--Gillian Flynn\u003cbr\u003e\"I found it mesmerizing front to back.\"--Michael Connelly\u003cbr\u003e\"I can't remember the last time I read something so (darkly, disconcertingly) addictive.\"--Rebecca Makkai\u003cbr\u003e\"An extraordinary novel . . . unlike any other mystery I've read.\"--Joseph Finder\u003cbr\u003e\"Tom Ripley, eat your heart out.\"--NPR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A classic psychological suspense.\"--\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A dark, daring plunge into literary suspense . . . Oates dissects the predator-prey dynamic with merciless precision.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eHARPER'S BAZAAR \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003ePUBLISHERS WEEKLY \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox's car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an unidentified body strewn about the nearby woods, the entire community, including Detective Horace Zwender and his deputy, begins to ask disturbing questions about Francis Fox and who he might really be. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA hypnotic, galloping tale of crime and complicity, revenge and restitution, victim vs. predator, Joyce Carol Oates's \u003ci\u003eFox\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche while asking profound moral questions about justice and the response evil demands. A character as magnetically diabolical as Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley and Vladimir Nabokov's Humbert Humbert, Francis Fox enchants and manipulates nearly everyone around him, until at last he meets someone he can't outfox. Written in Oates's trademark intimate, sweeping style, and interweaving multiple points of view, \u003ci\u003eFox\u003c\/i\u003e is a triumph of craftsmanship and artistry, a novel as profound as it is propulsive, as moving as it is full of mystery.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101194916063,"sku":"9780593978092","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/JnDo0TyQE29780593978092.webp?v=1781068445"},{"product_id":"double-trouble-paperback","title":"Double Trouble - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA double dose of gripping psychological suspense, pairing two complete novels and two rare short stories, from six-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Joyce Carol Oates. Two serial killers - one female, one male - murder in the name of a higher cause. Ideal for fans of Alice Munro, Ann Patchett and Anne Tyler.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCelebrating 40 Years of pseudonymous suspense from JOYCE CAROL OATES \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFour decades ago, acclaimed literary author Joyce Carol Oates penned her first novel of psychological suspense under the name \"Rosamond Smith.\" In the Smith books, Oates explored themes of betrayal and deception, lust and murder, through stories involving twins, doubles, and hidden second identities - initially, keeping her own double identity a secret. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHard Case Crime is proud to bring these extraordinary works of crime fiction, long unavailable in bookstores, back into print in definitive double editions, each pairing two complete novels and two never-before-collected Oates short stories, all linked thematically, to weave a sinister web filled with dark reflections. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn This Volume... \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA female serial killer seeks refuge in her twin sister's home in STARR BRIGHT WILL BE WITH YOU SOON, while a male serial killer murders for the woman he craves in SOUL\/MATE -- and the echoes continue in the rare short stories \"The Murderess\" and \"An Unsolved Crime.\"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102247522527,"sku":"9781835415443","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/myWDndg8Zj9781835415443.webp?v=1781079215"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/joyce-carol-oates.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}