Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories

　　From 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 Oates’s magnificent ability to make visceral the terror, hurt, and uncertainty that lurks at the edges of ordinary lives.
In “Mastiff,” a woman and a man are joined in an erotic bond forged out of terror and gratitude. “Sex with Camel” explores how a sixteen-year-old boy realizes the depth of his love for his grandmother  —  and how vulnerable those feelings make him. Fearful that that her husband is “disappearing” from their life, a woman becomes obsessed with keeping him in her sight in “The Disappearing.” “A Book of Martyrs” reveals how the end of a pregnancy brings with it the end of a relationship. And in the title story, the elderly Robert Frost is visited by an interviewer, an unsettling young woman, who seems to know a good deal more about his life than she should.

　　A piercing and evocative collection, Lovely, Dark, Deep reveals an artist at the height of her creative power.

作者簡介

喬伊斯‧卡洛‧奧茲（Joyce Carol Oates）

　　喬伊斯．卡洛．奧茲寫作以來得獎無數，曾獲美國 國家書評協會頒發的伊凡．桑德羅夫終生成就獎、國家書卷獎、美國筆會／馬拉姆傑出短篇小說獎（PEN/Malamud）。著有當代最為雋永的小說，包括叫 好叫座的《我們是馬爾瓦尼一家》（We Were the Mulvaneys）、入圍國家書卷獎與普立茲獎的《浮生如夢》（Blonde）、《紐約時報》暢銷書《大瀑布》（The Falls）、《掘墓人的女兒》（The Gravedigger’s Daughter）。奧茲亦跨足青少年小說，作品包括《大嘴巴和醜女孩》（Big Mouth & Ugly Girl）、《奇異的綠眼睛》（Freaky Green Eyes）、《逆風飛翔》（After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away）、《性．性感》（Sexy）等。奧茲擔任普林斯頓大學人文學院特聘教授，從一九七八年以來，亦是美國藝術暨文學學會會員。二〇〇三年，獲得共同 財富文學卓越貢獻奬，二〇〇六年，獲《芝加哥論壇報》終身成就獎。

　　Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.