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(0)Joyce Carol Oates
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Language
English
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Description
"Two hitmen in a depressed rust belt town struggle with a job gone wrong. A girl witnesses a horrifying accident and carries it with her for the rest of her life. Medical students bring a severed foot to a college party. Five-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Joyce Carol Oates has made a career of exploring the forbidden corners of human experience, and the stories collected here, spanning her first three decades as a writer, are among her most unsettling...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Hardcover First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, ¿́¿Father of Gyno-Psychiatry,¿́¿ as he ascends from professional anonymity to national renown. Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics, where he reigns. There, he is allowed to continue his practice, unchecked for decades, making a name for himself by focusing...