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Collection: Good Reading
Call Number: F
Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
Title: Cardiff, by the sea
Remainder of title: four novellas of suspense
Summary, etc. note: "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the most important contemporary American writers, Cardiff, by the Sea is a bold, haunting collection of four previously unpublished novellas.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"--

International Standard Book Number: 9780802157997
: (ebook)
: (hardcover)
Canceled/invalid ISBN: 9780802158017
Description conventions: rda
Authentication code: pcc
Classification number: PS3565.A8
Item number: C35 2020
Edition number: 23
Classification number: 813/.54
Dates associated with a name: 1938-
Relator term: author.
Statement of responsibility, etc.: Joyce Carol Oates.
Edition statement: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition, First edition.
Place of publication: New York ,NY
Name of publisher: Grove/Atlantic Press Books
Date of publication: 2020
Projected publication date: 2010
: New York :
: The Mysterious Press,
: 2020.
Extent: 402 pages
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: unmediated
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: volume
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Formatted contents note: Cardiff, by the sea -- Miao Dao -- Phantomwise: 1972 -- The surviving child.
: Provided by publisher.
Source of acquisition: B & T 10/23/2020
Purchase price: 26.00
Subject: Thriller
Subject: Psycologically chilling
Subject: Woman
Source of term: gsafd
Source of term: lcgft
Genre/form data or focus term: Suspense fiction.
Genre/form data or focus term: Novellas.
Personal name: Oates, Joyce Carol,
Personal name: Oates, Joyce Carol,
Personal name: Oates, Joyce Carol,
Personal name: Oates, Joyce Carol,
Dates associated with a name: 1938-
Dates associated with a name: 1938-
Dates associated with a name: 1938-
Dates associated with a name: 1938-
Title of a work: Cardiff, by the sea.
Title of a work: Miao Dao.
Title of a work: Phantomwise: 1972.
Title of a work: Surviving child.
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: 1 shelf copy
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: xk11 2020-07-27
: xk11 2020-07-27 (telework) (AutoDewey) to CIP

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