Lovely, Dark, DeepFrom the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all. Insightful, disturbing, imaginative, and breathtaking in their lyrical precision, the stories in Lovely, Dark, Deep display Joyce Carol Oatess magnificent ability to make visceral the terror, hurt, and uncertainty that lurks at the edges

Humane but chilling

The house holds its breath

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it seems he only has eyes for the beautiful Kat

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And worst of all

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this is a heartbreaking and beautiful portrait of an unlikely friendship—a story of love

But there is a murderer here who is driven to kill again and again

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Life heads down back alleys