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PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100061778915

ISBN-139780061778919

eBay Product ID (ePID)72013294

Product Key Features

Book TitleZombie : a Novel

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Thrillers / Psychological, Lgbt / Lesbian, Crime, Literary, Coming of Age

Publication Year2009

GenreFiction

AuthorJoyce Carol Oates

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight5.5 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition20

Reviews"Enthralling. . . . Harrowing. . . . Oates scores aggressively with this novel." -- Chicago Tribune "Joyce Carol Oates takes the worst nightmares and runs with them. . . . Impressive." -- San Francisco Examiner What gives this novel its awesome power is Oates's ability to convice us that Quentin might be anyone: a casual acquaintance, a friend, or a brother. Compulsively readable and impossible to forget, this should both win the prolific Oates new fans and satisfy her longtime readers. -- Library Journal Oates repeatedly exhibits the unwavering ability to depict the shadowy, at times malignant, aspects of human nature. Her latest endeavor is perhaps her most chilling novel to date, a diary with the eerie familiarity of yesterday's headlines, written by a sexually obsessed serial killer... With striking parallels to published reports of Jeffrey Dahmer's crimes, it is difficult not to conjure up that killer's image or to imagine his very thoughts and the rituals portrayed in the press as being perpetrated by him. Still, Oates compels the reader onward to the very last page of a horrifying, revelatory work of fiction. -- Booklist

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisZombie is a classic novel of dark obsession from the extraordinary Joyce Carol Oates. A brilliant, unflinching journey into the mind of a serial killer, Zombie views the world through the eyes of Quentin P., newly paroled sex offender, as he chillingly evolves from rapist to mass murderer. Joyce Carol Oates--the prolific author of so many extraordinary bestsellers, including The Gravediggers Daughter, Blonde, and The Falls --demonstrates why she ranks among America's most respected and accomplished literary artists with this provocative, breathtaking, and disturbing masterwork., Zombie is a classic novel of dark obsession from the extraordinary Joyce Carol Oates. A brilliant, unflinching journey into the mind of a serial killer, Zombie views the world through the eyes of Quentin P., newly paroled sex offender, as he chillingly evolves from rapist to mass murderer. Joyce Carol Oates-the prolific author of so many extraordinary bestsellers, including The Gravediggers Daughter, Blonde, and The Falls-demonstrates why she ranks among America's most respected and accomplished literary artists with this provocative, breathtaking, and disturbing masterwork., Zombie is a classic novel of dark obsession from the extraordinary Joyce Carol Oates. A brilliant, unflinching journey into the mind of a serial killer, Zombie views the world through the eyes of Quentin P., newly paroled sex offender, as he chillingly evolves from rapist to mass murderer. Joyce Carol Oates--the prolific author of so many extraordinary bestsellers, including The Gravediggers Daughter, Blonde, and The Falls--demonstrates why she ranks among America's most respected and accomplished literary artists with this provocative, breathtaking, and disturbing masterwork.