01801cam a2200265 4500 759638370 TxAuBib 20200903120000.0 200727s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020033629 9780802157997 hbk. $26.00 0802157998 hbk. $26.00 (OCoLC)1183400209 DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO BDX OCLCF ZPX FNN IH9 NZAUC IUK TCH TxGR TxAuBib Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-, author Surviving child. Cardiff, by the sea [Book] : four novellas of suspense / Joyce Carol Oates. First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition, First edition. New York : The Mysterious Press, 2020. ix, 402 pages ; 24 cm. "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the most important contemporary American writers, Cardiff, by the Sea is a bold, haunting collection of four previously unpublished novellas.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"--Provided by publisher. 20200903. Young women Crimes against Fiction. Life change events Fiction. RV8