Give Me Your Heart, Joyce Carol Oates
Give Me Your Heart, Joyce Carol Oates
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Give Me Your Heart
Tales of Mystery and Suspense

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: various narrators, Angela Brazil, Susan Boyce, Stephen R. Thorne, Rachael Warren, Parker Leventer, Fred Sullivan, Emily Woo Zeller, Mauro Hantman, Matt Clevy

Unabridged: 9 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2011


Synopsis

The need for love—obsessive, self-destructive, unpredictable—takes us to forbidden places, as in the chilling world of Give Me Your Heart, a new collection of stories by the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates. In the suspenseful "Strip Poker," a reckless adolescent girl must find a way of turning the tables on a gathering of increasingly threatening young men—can she "outplay" them? In "Smother!" a young woman's nightmare memory of childhood brings trouble on her professor mother—which of them will win? In "Split/Brain" a woman who has blundered into a lethal situation confronts the possibility of saving herself—will she take it? In "The First Husband," a jealous man discovers that his wife seems to have lied about her first marriage, and exacts a cruel revenge, years after the fact. In ten razor-sharp stories, National Book Award winner Oates shows that the most deadly mysteries often begin at home. Narrated by Angela Brazil, Susan Boyce, Stephen R. Thorne, Rachael Warren, Parker Leventer, Fred Sullivan, Emily Woo Zeller, Matt Clevy, and Mauro Hantman.

About Joyce Carol Oates

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.

About Angela Brazil

Angela Brazil is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator and a professional actor who is proud to be a long-standing member of the Resident Acting Company at Trinity Repertory Company. She also teaches at the Brown/Trinity Conservatory.

About Susan Boyce

Susan Boyce is the award-winning narrator of over 140 audiobooks. She performs in variety theater, is one half of the song-and-dance team of Jones & Boyce, and holds a degree in theater and biology. She can be heard in phone trees, in computer games, and as the voice of the pink “Care Bear.” She lives in St. Augustine, Florida, and summers in Greenville, Maine.

About Stephen R. Thorne

Stephen R. Thorne, winner of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards for narration, is a professional actor and member of the resident acting company at Providence’s esteemed Trinity Repertory Company, where he has played Hamlet, Henry V, and Tom Joad.

About Rachael Warren

Rachael Warren, an audiobook narrator and actress, is a member of the resident acting company at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island, where she has played such roles as Eliza Doolittle, Sally Bowles, Ophelia, and Portia, as well as originating roles in world premieres by artists such as Paula Vogel and Charles Strouse. Her work has also been seen across the United States at regional theaters and on several national tours.

About Parker Leventer

Parker Leventer is an actress and voice-over artist. She has worked at the Lark and the Working Theater in New York, as well as regionally at Trinity Repertory Company, California Shakespeare Theatre, and Magic Theatre. She has an MFA in acting from Brown University/Trinity Repertory in Providence, Rhode Island.

About Fred Sullivan

Fred Sullivan is an actor and an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator. He has played over one hundred roles as an award-winning resident actor at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island. He is resident director at Gamm Theatre and teaches acting at the Rhode Island School of Design.

About Emily Woo Zeller

Emily Woo Zeller is an Audie and Earphones Award–winning narrator, voice-over artist, actor, dancer, and choreographer. AudioFile magazine named her one of the Best Voices of 2013. Her voice-over career includes work in animated film and television in Southeast Asia.

About Mauro Hantman

Mauro Hantman has been a resident actor at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island, where he has appeared in over fifty productions since 1999. He's the artistic director of the Providence Improv Fest and a founding member of Improv Jones, an improv troupe formed in 1992.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin on December 22, 2022

My introduction to Joyce Carol Oates. She writes with such grace, even here where the characters are often nefarious and the events range from disheartening to disturbing to downright gruesome. And yet, these are stories of love. Love spurned. Love hoarded. Love lost. Love contorted by jealousy, lus......more

Goodreads review by Takoneando entre libros on June 16, 2021

Mi primer libro de la autora y no ha defraudado lo que pensaba sobre su escritura...¿Que es impecable? Sí. ¿Que es expresiva? Sí ¿Que es magistral? También. Pero también es pesimista, angustiosa, violenta, deprimente... Y la verdad, no sé si en otro momento o con algún otro de sus libros, pero en este......more

Goodreads review by Dolores on June 19, 2021

Cómo siempre Oates me fascina, en estos 10 relatos, no ha sido menos. Sabe llegar como nadie a las profundidades oscuras del alma humana y te lleva de la mano para que comprendas los sentimientos de los personajes que describe. Magistral aunque violento y perturbador.......more

Goodreads review by Cristina on August 03, 2017

He quedado totalmente maravillada. Los relatos me encantan, y estos han conseguido evadirme por completo. Me han resultado casi góticos por ese trasfondo inquietante, recóndito y violento en el andamiaje mental de los personajes, que como una traslúcida cortina, deja entrever algo oscuro y obsesivo.......more

Goodreads review by Resi on March 27, 2020

Hoy os dejo la reseña del segundo libro que elegí en Masa Crítica de Babelio. Había bastantes para elegir que me llamaron la atención, pero mi preferido de todos era este y tuve la suerte de que fuera el elegido, aunque imagino que los demás estaban más solicitados y la pobre Joyce Carol Oates no tu......more