Cutting Edge, Joyce Carol Oates
Cutting Edge, Joyce Carol Oates
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Cutting Edge
New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers

Author: Joyce Carol Oates, Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Xe Sands

Unabridged: 6 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/05/2019


Synopsis

Joyce Carol Oates, a queenpin of the noir genre, has brought her keen and discerning eye to the curation of an outstanding anthology of brand-new top-shelf short stories (and poems by Margaret Atwood!). While bad men are not always the victims in these tales, they get their due often enough to satisfy listeners who are sick and tired of the gendered status quo, or who just want to have a little bit of fun at the expense of a crumbling patriarchal society. This stylistically diverse collection will make you squirm in your seat, stay up at night, laugh out loud, and inevitably wish for more.

Featuring brand-new stories by: Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood (poems), Valerie Martin, Aimee Bender, Edwidge Danticat, Sheila Kohler, S. A. Solomon, S. J. Rozan, Lucy Taylor, Cassandra Khaw, Bernice L. McFadden, Jennifer Morales, Elizabeth McCracken, Livia Llewellyn, Lisa Lim, and Steph Cha.

About Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is the author of such national bestsellers as The Falls, Blonde, and We Were the Mulvaneys. Her other titles include Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense, which features "The Woman in the Window," selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2017; The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror, which won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection; and Jack of Spades. She is the recipient of the National Book Award for Them and the 2010 President's National Humanities Medal.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Diane Pangburn on 2020-04-14 08:06:16

Although the stories are great in this collection, the narrator is terrible. She mumbles, reads too softly, reads too fast, and the hoarseness of her voice is unpleasant. I have been listening to audio books all of my life as I am visually impaired, and I can't believe they pay Xe Sands the amount of money she must have gotten to read this book. I had to listen to some of the stories more than once to get their meaning. Unfortunately, she narrates other Oates titles, and I will think twice before getting them

Goodreads review by S.P. on September 03, 2020

"One of These Nights" by Livia Llewellyn is one of the best crime fiction or suspense stories I've read, this year or any other. No wonder it received an Edgar Award. This is a great story in an exceptionally good anthology edited by Joyce Carol Oates, who gets the subtle social habits of women like......more

Goodreads review by Ellie on April 25, 2021

4.75......more