Mysteries of Winterthurn
Joyce Carol Oates

A paperback reprint of Joyce Carol Oates’s novel originally published in 1984. Oates’s detective-hero, Xavier Kilgarvan, is confronted with three baffling cases, all in late 19th-century Winterthurn, the place of his birth. As a background to these mysteries is a growing romance between Xavier and the beautiful, enigmatic Perdita.

“The best of Oates’s Gothic novels allowing full play to the author’s style and story telling skill.”
Alan Ryan, Washington Post Book World

“A writer of vision…a prolific and distinctive talent…”
Robert Nye, The Guardian

“A tour de force of mischievous proportions…an accomplished piece of subversion…the subtleties of Joyce Carol Oates’s autocritical feminist perceptions will take their place alongside the out-front challenges of the feminist presses.”-
—The Listener

ISBN 13:998-0-86538-120-9 
$17.95 deluxe paperback

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Women I've Known
New and Selected Stories by Greg Johnson

These twenty-four stories, seven new and the rest selected from Johnson's previous four collections, range from “The Metamorphosis,” where a young female impersonator is torn apart by her fans, to “Last Encounter with the Enemy,” a battle of wills between Flannery O'Conner and a precocious 11-year-old boy. Other woman writers from the past encountered here include Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, and Emily Dickinson. Stories from the new collection have been included in The O. Henry Prize Stories, New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, and the PEN Syndicated Fiction Project.

Johnson's fiction is regional writing at its best, “Southern” fiction that focuses especially on Atlanta and the New South.

ISBN 0-86538-119-4
$22.95 hardcover

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