The Resource Night-gaunts and other tales of suspense, Joyce Carol Oates
Night-gaunts and other tales of suspense, Joyce Carol Oates
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The item Night-gaunts and other tales of suspense, Joyce Carol Oates represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Santa Clara County Library District.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- ""The Woman in the Window"...opens with a woman, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, seated in front of the window in an apartment she cannot, on her own, afford. In this exquisitely tense narrative reimagining of Edward Hopper's Eleven A.M., 1926, the reader enters the minds of both the woman and her married lover, each consumed by alternating thoughts of disgust and arousal, as he rushes, amorously, murderously, to her door. In "The Long-Legged Girl," an aging, jealous wife crafts an unusual game of Russian roulette involving a pair of Wedgewood teacups, a strong Bengal brew, and a lethal concoction of medicine. Who will drink from the wrong cup, the wife or the dance student she believes to be her husband's latest conquest? In "The Sign of the Beast," when a former Sunday school teacher's corpse turns up, the blighted adolescent she had by turns petted and ridiculed confesses to her murder--but is he really responsible? Another young outsider, Horace Phineas Love, Jr., is haunted by apparitions at the very edge of the spectrum of visibility after the death of his tortured father in "Night-Gaunts," a fantastic ode to H.P. Lovecraft."--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 335 pages
- Contents
-
- The woman in the window
- The long-legged girl
- Sign of the beast
- The experimental subject
- Walking wounded
- Night-gaunts
- Isbn
- 9780802128102
- Label
- Night-gaunts and other tales of suspense
- Title
- Night-gaunts and other tales of suspense
- Statement of responsibility
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- ""The Woman in the Window"...opens with a woman, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, seated in front of the window in an apartment she cannot, on her own, afford. In this exquisitely tense narrative reimagining of Edward Hopper's Eleven A.M., 1926, the reader enters the minds of both the woman and her married lover, each consumed by alternating thoughts of disgust and arousal, as he rushes, amorously, murderously, to her door. In "The Long-Legged Girl," an aging, jealous wife crafts an unusual game of Russian roulette involving a pair of Wedgewood teacups, a strong Bengal brew, and a lethal concoction of medicine. Who will drink from the wrong cup, the wife or the dance student she believes to be her husband's latest conquest? In "The Sign of the Beast," when a former Sunday school teacher's corpse turns up, the blighted adolescent she had by turns petted and ridiculed confesses to her murder--but is he really responsible? Another young outsider, Horace Phineas Love, Jr., is haunted by apparitions at the very edge of the spectrum of visibility after the death of his tortured father in "Night-Gaunts," a fantastic ode to H.P. Lovecraft."--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1938-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3565.A8
- LC item number
- A6 2018b
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Psychological fiction
- Short stories, American
- American fiction
- Label
- Night-gaunts and other tales of suspense, Joyce Carol Oates
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- The woman in the window
- The long-legged girl
- Sign of the beast
- The experimental subject
- Walking wounded
- Night-gaunts
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 335 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802128102
- Lccn
- 2017051229
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- on1005537789
- (OCoLC)1005537789
- Label
- Night-gaunts and other tales of suspense, Joyce Carol Oates
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- The woman in the window
- The long-legged girl
- Sign of the beast
- The experimental subject
- Walking wounded
- Night-gaunts
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 335 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802128102
- Lccn
- 2017051229
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- on1005537789
- (OCoLC)1005537789
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