Cardiff, by the sea : four novellas of suspense

ISBN: 9780802157997
Physical Description: regular print ix, 402 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York : The Mysterious Press, 2020.
Copyright: &copy;2020.

Oates, Joyce Carol 1938- (author.). Oates, Joyce Carol 1938- Cardiff, by the sea. (Added Author). Oates, Joyce Carol 1938- Miao Dao. (Added Author). Oates, Joyce Carol 1938- Phantomwise: 1972. (Added Author). Oates, Joyce Carol 1938- Surviving child. (Added Author).

Summary: 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the most important contemporary American writers, Cardiff, by the Sea is a bold, haunting collection of four previously unpublished novellas.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.