Cardiff, by the Sea

Resumen del libro

From one of the most important contemporary American writers, Cardiff, by the Sea is a bold, haunting collection of four never-before-seen novellas.

In the titular novella, a Pennsylvania academic discovers a terrifying trauma from her past after inheriting a house in Cardiff, Maine from someone she has never heard of. In 'Miao Dao', 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 realizes she is pregnant and, distraught, allows a distinguished visiting professor to take her under his wing in 'Phantomwise: 1972'.

And in 'The Surviving Child', a widower remarries, but his young wife is haunted by his dead wife's voice dancing in the wind.

In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful pieces, Joyce Carol Oates writes about women facing threats past and present, and reminds us why she is so often praised as one of America's most significant contemporary writers.

Biografía del autor

Joyce Carol Oates (1938) es una de las grandes figuras de la literatura contemporánea estadounidense. A lo largo de seis décadas de trayectoria, ha publicado más de medio centenar de novelas, más de cuatrocientos relatos breves, más de una docena de libros de no ficción, once libros de poesía y nueve obras de teatro. Ha sido cinco veces finalista del Premio Pulitzer de Ficción y en 1970 obtuvo el National Book Award por x{0026}lt;i Them.x{0026}lt;/i Entre los muchos otros galardones que ha obtenido a lo largo de su carrera figuran el Premio PEN/Malamud a la excelencia en el arte del cuento , el Prix Fémina Étranger y, en España, el Premio BBK Ja! Bilbao por el modernísimo humor negro de su obra y el Premio Pepe Carvalho 2021.