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Cardiff, by the sea : four novellas of suspense /

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : The Mysterious Press, 2020Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition, First editionDescription: ix, 402 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780802157997
  • 0802157998
Contained works:
  • Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Cardiff, by the sea
  • Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Miao Dao
  • Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Phantomwise: 1972
  • Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Surviving child
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.54 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3565.A8 C35 2020
Contents:
Cardiff, by the sea -- Miao Dao -- Phantomwise: 1972 -- The surviving child.
Summary: "From one of the most important contemporary American writers, Cardiff, by the Sea is a bold, haunting collection of four previously unpublished novellas. Starting with the title novella - in which a romantic-minded young art historian is led to (re)discover a terrifying trauma after inheriting property in faraway Cardiff, Maine - through to "The Surviving Child" - which finds the young new wife of a famous poet's widow haunted by the dead poet's voice dancing in the wind, an inexplicably befouled well, and a compulsive draw to the same garage that already took two lives - Cardiff, by the Sea is ceaselessly sinister. In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful novellas, Joyce Carol Oates writes about women facing threats past and present"--Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Barcode
F F Chamberlin Free Public Library Fiction F OAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000583082

Cardiff, by the sea -- Miao Dao -- Phantomwise: 1972 -- The surviving child.

"From one of the most important contemporary American writers, Cardiff, by the Sea is a bold, haunting collection of four previously unpublished novellas. Starting with the title novella - in which a romantic-minded young art historian is led to (re)discover a terrifying trauma after inheriting property in faraway Cardiff, Maine - through to "The Surviving Child" - which finds the young new wife of a famous poet's widow haunted by the dead poet's voice dancing in the wind, an inexplicably befouled well, and a compulsive draw to the same garage that already took two lives - Cardiff, by the Sea is ceaselessly sinister. In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful novellas, Joyce Carol Oates writes about women facing threats past and present"--Provided by publisher.

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