Carthage

Author(s): Joyce Carol Oates

Fiction

A young girl's disappearance rocks a community and a family, in this stirring examination of grief, faith, justice and the atrocities of war, from literary legend Joyce Carol Oates. Zeno Mayfield's daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks. But when the community of Carthage joins a father's frantic search for the girl, they discover instead the unlikeliest of suspects - a decorated Iraq War veteran with close ties to the Mayfield family. As grisly evidence mounts against the troubled war hero, the family must wrestle with the possibility of having lost a daughter forever. 'Carthage' plunges us deep into the psyche of a wounded young Corporal, haunted by unspeakable acts of wartime aggression, while unraveling the story of a disaffected young girl whose exile from her family may have come long before her disappearance. Dark and riveting, 'Carthage' is a powerful addition to the Joyce Carol Oates canon, one that explores the human capacity for violence, love and forgiveness, and asks if it's ever truly possible to come home again.

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Praise for Joyce Carol Oates: 'Oates has been fearless in taking on a subject that criss-crossed almost every important strand of mid twentieth century history...Apart from her, only Don Delillo, among today's American novelists, and no one at all among today's American women novelists, would be able to handle such a huge cast of imagined and real characters...A mighty - and a mesmerising - book' Elaine Showalter on Blonde 'One of the female frontrunners for the title of Great American Novelist' Maggie Gee, Sunday Times 'A rather nightmarish celebration of the American dream, of the transformative powers of ambition, talent and love. Its style is a fitting combination of the harsh and lyrical, and has a powerful, seemingly unconscious fluency' Lewis Jones on The Gravedigger's Daughter 'If the phrase "woman of letters" existed, she would be, foremost in this country, entitled to it' John Updike, New Yorker

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including 'We Were the Mulvaneys', which was an Oprah Book Club Choice, and 'Blonde', which was nominated for the National Book Award. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University.

General Fields

  • : 9780007485741
  • : Fourth Estate
  • : Fourth Estate
  • : 0.644
  • : December 2012
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : February 2014
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Joyce Carol Oates
  • : Paperback
  • : Paperback
  • : Feb-14
  • : Feb-14
  • : English
  • : English
  • : 813.54
  • : 813.54
  • : very good
  • : very good
  • : 400
  • : 400