Situada en la m?tica ciudad de Sparta, en Nueva York, Ave del para?so es una punzante y v?vida combinaci?n de romance er?tico y violencia tr?gica en la Norteam?rica de finales del siglo XX. Cuando Zoe Kruller, una joven esposa y madre, aparece brutalmente asesinada, la polic?a de Sparta se centra en dos principales sospechosos, su marido, Delray, del que estaba separada, y su amante desde hace tiempo, Eddy Diehl. Mientras tanto, el hijo de los Kruller, Aaron, y la hija de Eddy, Krista, adquieren una mutua obsesi?n, y cada uno cree que el padre del otro es culpable. Una cl?sica novela de Oates, autora tambi?n de La hija del sepulturero, Mam?, Infiel, Puro fuego y Un jard?n de poderes terrenales, en la que el lirismo del intenso amor sexual est? entrelazado con la angustia de la p?rdida y es dif?cil diferenciar la ternura de la crueldad
In her bewitching 30th novel, I'll Take You There, Joyce Carol Oates returns again to neurotic female post-adolescence. The unnamed narrator attends an upstate New York university in the early 1960s. In those times of tightly prescribed femininity, she joins a sorority in a bald attempt to become part of the sisterhood of normalcy. It doesn't work. She reads philosophy, she works for a living, she's asexual, she's an orphan, she's a Jew: "I was a freak in the midst of their stunning, stampeding, blazing female normality." Booted from the sorority, she falls hard for a thirtyish black philosophy ...
«Le hipnotizar? y le conmover?… Un libro m?s dolorosamente autorrevelador de lo que la Oates novelista o cr?tica se haya atrevido a publicar jam?s.» – Ann Hulbert, The New York Times Book ReviewEn una ma?ana gris de febrero, Joyce Carol Oates llev? a su marido Raymond Smith a urgencias aquejado de una neumon?a; una semana despu?s, ciertas complicaciones terminaban con su vida. Estas deslumbrantes p?ginas capturan el estado emocional de Oates tras la repentina muerte de su marido, y c?mo se ve obligada a hallar su equilibrio sin la alianza ...
Oates's latest collection explores certain favorite Oatesian themes, primary among them violence, loss, and privilege. Three of the stories feature white, upper-class, educated widows whose sheltered married lives have left them unprepared for life alone. In «Pumpkin-Head» and «Sourland», the widows-Hadley in the first story, Sophie in the second-encounter a class of Oatesian male: predatory, needy lurkers just out of prosperity's reach. In the first story, our lurker is Anton Kruppe, a Central European immigrant and vague acquaintance of Hadley whose frustrations boil over in a disastrous way. In the second story, Sophie is contacted by Jeremiah, an old ...
In 1936 the Schwarts, an immigrant family desperate to escape Nazi Germany, settle in a small town in upstate New York, where the father, a former high school teacher, is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. After local prejudice and the family's own emotional frailty result in unspeakable tragedy, the gravedigger's daughter, Rebecca, begins her astonishing pilgrimage into America, an odyssey of erotic risk and imaginative daring, ingenious self-invention, and, in the end, a bittersweet-but very "American"-triumph. "You are born here, they will not hurt you"-so the gravedigger has predicted for his ...
