"From one of the most important contemporary American writers, Cardiff, by the Sea is a bold, haunting collection of four previously unpublished novellas. Starting with the title novella-in which a romantic-minded young art historian is led to (re)discover a terrifying trauma after inheriting property in faraway Cardiff, Maine-through to "The Surviving Child"-which finds the young new wife of a famous poet's widow haunted by the dead poet's voice dancing in the wind, an inexplicably befouled well, and a compulsive draw to the same garage that already took two lives-Cardiff, by the Sea is ceaselessly sinister. In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful novellas, Joyce Carol Oates writes about women facing threats past and present"--Provided by publisher.
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ISBN: 0802157998
ISBN: 9780802157997
Physical Description:printix, 402 pages ; 24 cm
Edition:First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition, First edition.
Publisher:New York :The Mysterious Press,2020.
General Note: LSC 38.95
Formatted Contents Note: Cardiff, by the sea -- Miao Dao -- Phantomwise: 1972 -- The surviving child.