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Extenuating circumstances stories of crime and suspense Cover Image Large Print Book

Extenuating circumstances [large print] : stories of crime and suspense / Joyce Carol Oates.

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- (author.).

Summary:

"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 and unforgettable works to date."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781638084051
  • ISBN: 163808405X
  • Physical Description: 615 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
  • Edition: Center Point Large Print edition.
  • Publisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2022.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Regular print version previously published by Penzler Publishers / The Mysterious Press.
Formatted Contents Note:
Death of Mrs. Sheer -- In the warehouse -- By the river -- Queen of the night -- Revenge of the foot, 1970 -- Doll -- Little wife -- Yarrow -- Haunted -- Death Valley -- Craps -- Family -- Ladies and gentlemen: -- Why don't you come live with me, it's time -- Buck -- Model -- Extenuating circumstances -- Girl who was to die -- Poor Bibi -- Undesirable table -- Hand-puppet -- Valentine -- Collector of hearts -- Sons of Angus MacElster.

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Victims of crimes > Fiction.
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Horror tales, American.
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Horror fiction.
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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