{"product_id":"cardiff-by-the-sea-four-novellas-of-suspense-paperback","title":"Cardiff, by the Sea: Four Novellas of Suspense - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoyce Carol Oates\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFour brand-new novellas by the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling, National Book Award-winning \"grand mistress of ghoulishness\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn academic in Pennsylvania discovers a terrifying trauma from her past after inheriting a house in Cardiff, Maine from someone she has never heard of. A pubescent girl, overcome with loneliness, befriends a feral cat that becomes her protector from the increasingly aggressive males that surround her. A brilliant but shy college sophomore is distraught to discover that she's pregnant, and the professor who takes her under his wing may not have innocent intentions. And a woman who marries into a family shattered by tragedy finds herself haunted by her predecessor's voice, an inexplicably befouled well, and a compulsive attraction to a garage that took two lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful pieces, the author of \u003ci\u003eWe Were the Mulvaneys\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlonde \u003c\/i\u003ewrites about women facing threats past and present, once again cementing her reputation for \"great intelligence and dead-on imaginative powers\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoyce Carol Oates\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of such national bestsellers as \u003ci\u003eThe Falls\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlonde\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWe Were the Mulvaneys\u003c\/i\u003e. Her other titles for The Mysterious Press include \u003ci\u003eNight-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense\u003c\/i\u003e, which features \"The Woman in the Window,\" selected for The Best American Mystery Stories 2017; \u003ci\u003eThe Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection; and \u003ci\u003eJack of Spades\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of the National Book Award for \u003ci\u003ethem\u003c\/i\u003e and the 2010 President's National Humanities Medal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.26 x 8.11 x 5.51 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 19, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50334247518445,"sku":"9780802158000","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/14p6-IlFol9780802158000.webp?v=1785007490","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-gb\/products\/cardiff-by-the-sea-four-novellas-of-suspense-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}