Little Bird of Heaven, Joyce Carol Oates
Little Bird of Heaven, Joyce Carol Oates
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Little Bird of Heaven
A Novel

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: Karissa Vacker

Unabridged: 17 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/17/2020


Synopsis

A searing exploration of the mysterious conjunction of erotic romance and tragic violence in late-twentieth-century America, Little Bird of Heaven returns to the emotional and geographical terrain of acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates's previous bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and The Gravedigger's Daughter.

When young wife and mother Zoe Kruller is found brutally murdered, the police target two suspects: her estranged husband, Delray Kruller, and her longtime lover, Eddy Diehl. In turn, the Krullers' son, Aaron, and Diehl's daughter, Krista, become obsessed with each other, each believing the other's father guilty. By novel's end, the fated lovers are at last ready to exorcise the ghosts of the past and come to terms with their legacy of guilt, misplaced love, and redemptive yearning.

Told in halves in the very different voices of Krista and Aaron, Little Bird of Heaven is classic Oates—where the lyricism of intense sexual love is intertwined with the anguish of loss, and tenderness is barely distinguishable from cruelty.

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

Goodreads review by Simona on April 09, 2017

"Ma sapevo affrontare il dolore. La sofferenza era una eredità che conoscevo, e accettavo. In pratica tutta la mia vita - privata e professionale - era una strategia per affrontare il dolore, vi ero allenata". "Uccellino del paradiso" è pregno di dolore. Il dolore di due famiglie che ci vengono pres......more

Goodreads review by Mariano on May 16, 2012

"Ave del paraíso" de la gran escritora norteamericana Joyce Carol Oates. Y me encanta empezar con ella porque no paro de recomendarla, no hagáis caso a los intentos de la editorial actual que la publica de hacernos ver que es un libro romanticón a lo "noraroberts" o cosillas al estilo... no tiene na......more

Goodreads review by Talita ✿⁠  on April 29, 2023

que decepção......more

Goodreads review by Stefania on November 17, 2024

"Che mistero è l'amore. Si può essere innamorati di una persona che non sa nulla di te. Forse la massima felicità si raggiunge quando si ama qualcuno che ignora la nostra esistenza." •~• Krista e Aaron, i protagonisti di questa storia, non potrebbero essere più diversi. Ma un tragico evento li legherà......more

Goodreads review by Estibaliz on June 19, 2012

Más de una vez he leído por ahí que Joyce Carol Oates es una de esas eternas candidatas al Premio Nobel. ¿A qué están esperando? Está claro que esta mujer sabe escribir y domina la narrativa como pocos... y ello sin caer en el tedio. Este 'Ave del Paraíso' es ciertamente cautivador y absorbente, lo q......more