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Give me your heart, tales of mystery and suspense, Joyce Carol Oates

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Give me your heart, tales of mystery and suspense, Joyce Carol Oates

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Give me your heart

Oclc number

505420667

Responsibility statement

Joyce Carol Oates

Sub title

tales of mystery and suspense

Summary

A new collection of stories by National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates. In the suspenseful "Strip Poker," a reckless adolescent girl must find a way of turning the tables on a gathering of increasingly threatening young men. Can she outplay them? In the award-winning "Smother!" a young woman's nightmare memory of childhood brings trouble on her professor-mother. Which of them will win? In "Split/Brain" a woman who has blundered into a lethal situation confronts the possibility of saving herself. Will she take it? In "The First Husband," a jealous man discovers that his wife seems to have lied about her first marriage, and exacts a cruel revenge, years after the fact. In these and other powerful tales, children veer beyond their parents' control, wives and husbands wake up to find that they hardly know each other, haunted pasts intrude upon uncertain futures, and those who bring us the most harm may be the nearest at hand

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