High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread
Joyce Carol Oates is an unparalleled investigator of human flaws. In these eight stories, she deftly tests the bonds between damaged individuals — a brother and sister, a teacher and student, two strangers on a subway — in the fearless prose for which she’s become so celebrated.
In the title story “High Crime Area,” a white, aspiring professor is convinced she is being followed. No need to panic, she has a handgun stowed away in her purse — just in case. But when she turns to confront her black, male shadow, the situation isn’t what she expects. In “The Rescuer,” a promising graduate student detours to inner city Trenton, New Jersey to save her brother from a downward spiral. But she soon finds out there may be more to his world than to hers. And in “The Last Man of Letters,” the world-renowned author X embarks on a final grand tour of Europe. He has money, fame, but not a whole lot of manners. A little thing like etiquette couldn’t bring a man like X down, could it?
In these biting and beautiful stories, Oates confronts, one by one, the demons within us. Sometimes it’s the human who wins, and sometimes it’s the demon.
- Author
- Joyce Carol Oates, Julia Whelan, Ray Chase, Donna Postel, Luci Christian Bell, Tamara Marston, Chris Patton
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781784081614
- Genres
- fiction, horror, crime, mystery, suspense, dark, unfinished
- Release date
- 2014
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