01992cam a2200337 4500 449641222 TxAuBib 20201216120000.0 200727s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020033629 9780802157997 HRD 26.00 0802157998 HRD 26.00 TxAuBib Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Novellas Selections. Cardiff, by the sea [BOOK] : four novellas of suspense / Joyce Carol Oates. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition, First edition. New York : The Mysterious Press, 2020. ix, 402 pages ; 24 cm. "Four novellas of suspense"--Jacket. Cardiff, by the sea -- Miao Dao -- Phantomwise: 1972 -- The surviving child. "From one of the most important contemporary American writers, Cardiff, by the Sea is a bold, haunting collection of four previously unpublished novellas. Starting with the title novella-in which a romantic-minded young art historian is led to (re)discover a terrifying trauma after inheriting property in faraway Cardiff, Maine-through to "The Surviving Child"-which finds the young new wife of a famous poet's widow haunted by the dead poet's voice dancing in the wind, an inexplicably befouled well, and a compulsive draw to the same garage that already took two lives-Cardiff, by the Sea is ceaselessly sinister. In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful novellas, Joyce Carol Oates writes about women facing threats past and present"-- Provided by publisher. 20201216. Women Fiction. Women Crimes against Fiction. Short stories, American. Horror tales, American. Young women Crimes against Fiction. Maine Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.)