The Collector of Hearts

副标题: New Tales of the Grotesque

ISBN: 9780452280243

出版社: Plume

出版年: 1999-10-01

定价: USD 12.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

"Shimmering . . . Oates is a master at this genre."--Boston Globe

In these twenty-five gothic horror tales from the master of the short story, Joyce Carol Oates explores the waking nightmares of life with eyes wide-open, facing what the bravest of us fear the most. From the Kafka-esque "Scars" to a balladlike tale of erotic obsession in "The Crossing," to the mother-daughter bond given a fatal twist in "Death Mother," the stories in The Collector of Hearts illuminate the mysteries of the human experience--both intellectual and visceral. It is a stunning and richly diverse anthology of mood and menace--haunting, elegiac, and compulsively readable.