A Book of American Martyrs: Joyce Carol Oates

A Book of American Martyrs: Joyce Carol Oates

by JoyceCarolOates (Author)

Synopsis

`The story of Trump's America' Daily Mail

Two families.

Two faces of America.

One violent crime that will bitterly divide them - and yet bind them together forever.

`A magnificent story of two broken families' Independent

`Page-turning, gripping, full of unexpected twists' Observer

`From its dramatic opening, with the killing of an abortionist, the book rockets forwards ... Ingenious, agile, dazzling' Literary Review

`Morally meaty and always readable' Sunday Times

`A masterpiece' Washington Post

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 752
Edition: 1
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 19 Oct 2017

ISBN 10: 0008221715
ISBN 13: 9780008221713

Media Reviews

`The story of Trump's America' Daily Mail

`Page-turning, gripping, full of unexpected twists' Observer

`A magnificent story of two broken families, both steeped in grief' Independent

`Icily subtle ... at its spine-tingling best when staring into the dark, a sliver away from the Gothic' Spectator

`Dramatic, dazzling, ingenious, agile ... her uniquely sane, empathetic voice seems particularly vital and timely during Trump's presidency' Literary Review

`The most relevant book of Oates's half-century-long career . . . a masterpiece' Washington Post

`Oates's American saga captivates because it exists within an actual drama playing out across the country. A graceful and excruciating story of two families who do not live very far apart, but exist in different realities' USA Today

Author Bio

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Accursed. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.