Evil Eye, Joyce Carol Oates
Evil Eye, Joyce Carol Oates
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Evil Eye
Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Luci Christian, Donna Postel, Chris Patton

Unabridged: 5 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/03/2013


Synopsis

Readers know that few authors are able to create an atmosphere of unease and terror as well as Oates, a fact confirmed by the four novellas presented here.

In the title story, “Evil Eye,” a young woman has recently become the fourth wife of a highly demanding man. When his first wife comes to stay with them, she warns the new bride that her husband is insane, and that she must find a way to protect herself. In “So Near Anytime Always,” a fateful meeting in a library leads to a boy's obsessive interest in a teenage girl. In “The Execution,” spoiled college student Bart Hansen has forgotten to factor in one person in his plan to commit the perfect, brutal crime: his mother. And in “The Flatbed,” a beautiful young woman struggles with frigidity until a shocking act releases her.

All the novellas in this collection revolve around the theme of love gone wrong—horribly, shockingly wrong.

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

” Se sollevi una pietra, quello che vedi strisciare freneticamente lì sotto è la natura umana, per lo più.” - "Malocchio" - "Cosi vicino. In ogni momento" - "L’esecuzione" - "Il pianale" Questi i titoli dei quattro racconti. Quattro note stonate. Stridono e quello che dovrebbe essere un canto sull’amo......more

I'm a huge JCO fan and I generally compare her books to her other works because they are unique. This group of stories was less creepy (?) than I was expecting but gripping anyway. The first few stories felt very different than her style. The first story would be a great novella, the second (if love......more