Book
Cardiff, by the sea : four novellas of suspense
Call Number
- THRILLER OATE (OSH)
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Publication Information
New York : The Mysterious Press, 2020.
Physical Description
ix, 402 pages ; 24 cm
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the most important contemporary American writers, Cardiff, by the Sea is a bold, haunting collection of four previously unpublished novellas.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.
Contents
- Cardiff, by the sea
- Miao Dao
- Phantomwise: 1972
- Surviving child.