Corn Maiden, The: And Other Nightmares

Corn Maiden, The: And Other Nightmares
Joyce Carol Oates
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 384pg
14 Apr 2022 UK
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9781801102964
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Twice nominated for the Nobel Prize, Joyce Carol Oates presents an unbearably taut and terrifying tale combining the fury of folklore and adolescent insecurity. Marissa is an innocent girl, with hair the colour of corn-silk. She does not hold others in strange thrall, as some young women do, she obeys her parents, she does not stay late after school, lingering on her walk through the swaying heads of maize. She is the perfect sacrifice. The Corn Maiden is a novella, followed by six other nightmares.
'Even within the wild and tangled menagerie that comprises our literary landscape, Joyce Carol Oates is a startling creature, possessed of a speed and talent that hints at the uncanny ... The Corn Maiden provides further confirmation of a unique writer's restless, preternatural brilliance' Guardian. 'For horror stories to be truly horrific, the reader has to care. Oates feels this deeply in her writing and delivers with style' Independent on Sunday. 'Oates has a talent for creating suspense and surprise, while apparently withholding nothing' The Times. 'Oates unerringly manages to unsettle the reader, preying deftly and mercilessly on our deepest anxieties' Metro.
Joyce Carol Oates is the author of over 70 works and the winner of a host of prizes including the National Book Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She has been nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Oates is Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781801102964
Published: 14 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Head of Zeus
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 384

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