TY - BOOK AU - Oates, Joyce Carol, AU - Oates, Joyce Carol, AU - Oates, Joyce Carol, AU - Oates, Joyce Carol, AU - Oates, Joyce Carol, TI - Cardiff, by the sea: four novellas of suspense SN - 9780802157997 AV - PS3565.A8 C35 2020 U1 - 813/.54 23 PY - 2020/// CY - New York : PB - The Mysterious Press, KW - Young women KW - Crimes against KW - Fiction KW - Life change events KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - lcgft KW - Psychological fiction KW - Suspense fiction N1 - Cardiff, by the sea --; Miao Dao --; Phantomwise: 1972 --; The surviving child N2 - "From one of the most important contemporary American writers, Cardiff, by the Sea is a bold, haunting collection of four previously unpublished novellas. Starting with the title novella - in which a romantic-minded young art historian is led to (re)discover a terrifying trauma after inheriting property in faraway Cardiff, Maine - through to "The Surviving Child" - which finds the young new wife of a famous poet's widow haunted by the dead poet's voice dancing in the wind, an inexplicably befouled well, and a compulsive draw to the same garage that already took two lives - Cardiff, by the Sea is ceaselessly sinister. In these psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful novellas, Joyce Carol Oates writes about women facing threats past and present"--Provided by publisher ER -