GIVE ME YOUR HEART by Joyce Carol Oates - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK
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The need for love—obsessive, self-destructive, unpredictable—takes us to forbidden places, as in the chilling world of Give Me Your Heart, a new collection of stories by the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates.
In the suspenseful “Strip Poker,”
a reckless adolescent girl must find a way of turning the tables on a
gathering of increasingly threatening young men—Can she “outplay” them?
In the award-winning “Smother!” a young woman’s nightmare memory of
childhood brings trouble on her professor-mother—Which of them will
“win”? In “Split/Brain” a woman who has blundered into a lethal
situation confronts the possibility of saving herself—Will she take it?
In “The First Husband,” a jealous man discovers that his wife seems to
have lied about her first marriage, and exacts a cruel revenge, years
after the fact. In these and other powerful tales, children veer beyond
their parents’ control, wives and husbands wake up to find that they
hardly know each other, haunted pasts intrude upon uncertain futures,
and those who bring us the most harm may be the nearest at hand.
In ten razor-sharp stories,
National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates shows that the most deadly
mysteries often begin at home.
Give Me Your Heart 
