The Devils Half Acre, Joyce Carol Oates
The Devils Half Acre, Joyce Carol Oates
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The Devil's Half Acre

Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrator: John McDonough

Unabridged: 11 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/22/2010

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

Joyce Carol Oates uses her award-winning talents to spin a masterful tale of Gothic horror for the second part of her mesmerizing trilogy. In The Devil's Half Acre, an eerie, supernatural setting and a host of eccentric characters combine to fill this spellbinding novel with tantalizing suspense. After more than a decade, the handsome amateur detective Xavier Kilgarvan has returned to Winterthurn just in time to see the fifth young woman's body carried from Devil's Half Acre. A brutal fiend has left her mutilated body in this desolate plot of land filled with hulking boulders, quicksand, and twisted trees. Can detective Kilgarvan discover the forces motivating the mysterious "Gentleman Suitor" who has lured five innocent women to their deaths? To do so, he must confront demons from the past and the superstitions that surround the Devil's Half Acre.

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 Eric on January 24, 2025

Better overall than the first in the series since it delves further into the characters and comes out with a particularly brutal ending that feels more in line with a piece of gothic literature. The same sense of hiding secrets, decorum of racism, and the strange social habits of the time (very, ver......more

Goodreads review by Linda on October 25, 2017

Misogyny, white supremacy, thwarted love and thwarted justice. So many words and beautifully arranged.......more