04434cam a2200553 4500 2787234665 TxAuBib 20260618120000.0 ||||||s2026||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593978139 0593978137 B0FRFH6RKQ Amazon bdf7bebf-36f7-4929-8005-25d63037f7e5 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 12347508 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- The Frenzy [Libby eBook] : Stories. Random House Publishing Group, 2026. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. joyce carol oates short stories. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. The Frenzy Joyce Carol Oates. book club recommendations. short stories collections. short story collections. joyce carol oates books. Psychological Suspense. short story collection. Psychological fiction. contemporary fiction. Joyce Carol Oates. literary fiction. suspense fiction. long story short. gifts for women. Literary gifts. suspense books. short fiction. Short Stories. fiction books. gifts for men. short story. The Frenzy. HTML:<b>A gripping collection of propulsive, psychologically suspenseful stories by the legendary Joyce Carol Oates “who is surely on any shortlist of America’s greatest living writers” (<i>The New York Times Magazine</i>)<br /> “A genius in the truest sense of the word.”—Rebecca Makkai<br /> “One of the greatest writers among us today.”—Gillian Flynn</b><br /> <b>“Haunting . . . masterfully orchestrated . . . Oates’s best work is simmering and remorseless.”—<i>Vogue</i></b><br /> <b>“Astounding . . . Oates imbues this entire book with psychological suspense and high stakes.”—<i>Harper's Bazaar</i></b><br /> <b>“[A] terrific collection.”—<i>Publishers Weekly</i> (starred review)<br /> A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR: <i>Vogue, Haper’s Bazaar</i>, <i>Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Lit Hub</i>, AARP<br /></b><br /> <i>Frenzy (noun): a temporary madness; a violent mental or emotional agitation; intense usually wild and often disorderly compulsive or agitated activity</i><br /> Joyce Carol Oates is a master of the short story and one of the legends of the form. Her collections of short fiction have twice been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and have won numerous awards, including the O. Henry Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Art of the Short Story. In <i>The Frenzy: Stories</i>, Oates plunges us into the lives of her characters at moments of crisis and confusion, when much of what they understand about themselves and those they love comes undone.<br /> A young woman on a supposedly romantic weekend trip to Cape May, New Jersey, turns the tables on her older, married lover. A freak bicycle accident on a bridge haunts one family for decades. A girl jealous of her popular cousin discovers she is the lucky one. A widow waits at her riverside house for her dead husband's return. A young man hiking in the woods comes upon a couple in a heated, possibly violent argument—should he intervene?<br /> Suspenseful and psychologically astute, Oates's short stories enthrall and captivate as they dissect her character's deepest fears—revealing our own in turn. "Literature is a texture of words," says Oates of her short fiction, "evoking life in the most vivid ways—psychologically, physically." These new stories blazingly evoke life at its most vivid and perilous, when fate and free will intersect, and one ominous encounter or bad choice can be the difference between an ordinary day and the point of no return. Short Stories. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-06-18 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=bdf7bebf-36f7-4929-8005-25d63037f7e5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=bdf7bebf-36f7-4929-8005-25d63037f7e5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)