Cardiff, by the Sea - Joyce Carol Oates (Paperback) 08-07-2021

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A stylish, suspenseful quartet of novellas tinged with the supernatural' Daily Mail From Joyce Carol Oates come four psychologically daring and chillingly suspenseful stories where women face threats both past and present. A Pennsylvania academic unearths a terrifying trauma from her past after inheriting a house in Cardiff, Maine from a stranger. A lonely pubescent girl befriends a feral cat that protects her from the increasingly aggressive men that surround her. A brilliant but shy college sophomore realizes she is pregnant and, distraught, allows a distinguished visiting professor to take her under his wing. And a widower remarries, but finds his young bride haunted by his dead wife's voice dancing in the wind. Show more