

A Fair Maiden
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Narrator: Angela Goethals
Unabridged: 5 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 01/01/2010
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Literary Fiction
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Narrator: Angela Goethals
Unabridged: 5 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 01/01/2010
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Literary Fiction
Joyce Carol Oates, an award-winning author of fiction, nonfiction, short stories, plays, and novellas, is the author of some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including two New York Times bestsellers. Her books have won the National Book Award, O. Henry Award, the Jerusalem Prize, and the National Humanities Medal, among others. Her work has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize several times. She has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
Angela Goethals is a native New Yorker who has appeared on and off Broadway in Picnic, Four Baboons Adoring the Sun, and The Good Times Are Killing Me, for which she won an Obie Award and a Drama Desk nomination. Since moving to Los Angeles with her husband, she has appeared on Grey’s Anatomy, Without a Trace, and Boston Public, with a recurring role on 24.
"Un inizio innocente. Quando Katya Spivak aveva sedici anni e Marcus Kidder sessantotto." Poche parole danno avvio al romanzo e già da subito si coglie che quell'inizio e questa storia sarà tutto fuorché innocente. Siamo nel New Jersey, è estate, e Katya si guadagna da vivere facendo la babysitter. S......more
I'm pretty sure that whatever JCO wanted to say with this novel was not what I heard. If it was, that's even worse. Elaborating on this would be disclosing too much... Both Katya and Marcus Kidder were pretty unsympathetic characters in my opinion. Their relationship was disturbing, based soley on m......more
At the risk of sounding presumptuous, I think Joyce Carol Oates had Little Red Riding Hood in mind when she wrote this. Fairy tale references are scattered throughout the book like breadcrumbs. We meet sixteen-year-old blond, tan-legged Katya (aka Cinderella or Snow White), who is working as a nanny......more
“What keeps us coming back to Oates Country is…her uncanny gift of making the page a window, with something on the other side that we’d swear was life itself.” New York Times
“For forty years, Joyce Carol Oates has maintained a creative dialogue with the roiling cauldron of contemporary American culture, writing unflinchingly about the oddities that bubble up into the headlines.” Washington Post
“Fans of Oates’ gothic stylings will not be disappointed…the prose [has] plenty of punch.” Booklist