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Butcher

Arnaldo Ageno — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 14:03:37 +0000

From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a nineteenth-century women’s asylum, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world. Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Dr Silas Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics. There, his work focuses on women who have been neglected by the state – women he subjects to grotesque modes of experimentation.

Based on authentic historical documents, Butcher is a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche

Fox

Arnaldo Ageno — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 09:12:34 +0000

Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox’s car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an unidentified body strewn about the nearby woods, the entire community, including Detective Horace Zwender and his deputy, begins to ask disturbing questions about Francis Fox and who he might really be.A hypnotic, galloping tale of crime and complicity, revenge and restitution, victim vs. predator, Joyce Carol Oates’s Fox illuminates the darkest corners of the human psyche while asking profound moral questions about justice and the response evil demands.

A character as magnetically diabolical as Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley and Vladimir Nabokov’s Humbert Humbert, Francis Fox enchants and manipulates nearly everyone around him, until at last he meets someone he can’t outfox. Written in Oates’s trademark intimate, sweeping style, and interweaving multiple points of view, Fox is a triumph of craftsmanship and artistry, a novel as profound as it is propulsive, as moving as it is full of mystery.

Flint Kill Creek

Arnaldo Ageno — Thu, 29 May 2025 09:43:44 +0000

From Joyce Carol Oates, one of America’s most feted and critically acclaimed authors, a collection of mysterious, suspenseful and macabre tales. In her inimitable style, Oates takes the reader on unsettling journeys through the modern American psyche. Here you will find tales of loss and grief, confusion and darkness; of violent ends and the cruel march of time; of failed relationships, family secrets, and professional jealousy; of deceitful lovers, distant spouses, and those with murder in mind.

Dark secrets or their own consciences impact Oates’ characters as she moves between small American towns and anonymous urban sprawls, between the courtroom, the hospital, the world of academia, and the wilderness of upstate New York with deft skill in this tantalising collection of the macabre and mysterious, the suspenseful and the sublime.

Da Joyce Carol Oates, una delle autrici americane più acclamate e acclamate dalla critica, una raccolta di racconti misteriosi, pieni di suspense e macabri. Con il suo stile inimitabile, Oates accompagna il lettore in un viaggio inquietante attraverso la psiche americana moderna. Qui troverete storie di perdita e dolore, confusione e oscurità; di fini violenti e del crudele passare del tempo; di relazioni fallite, segreti di famiglia e gelosie professionali; di amanti disonesti, coniugi distanti e di persone con l’omicidio in mente.

Oscuri segreti o la loro stessa coscienza influenzano i personaggi di Oates mentre si muove con abilità tra piccole città americane e anonime distese urbane, tra l’aula di tribunale, l’ospedale, il mondo accademico e la natura selvaggia dello stato di New York settentrionale, in questa stuzzicante raccolta di macabro e misterioso, di suspense e sublime.