Carthage

Oates, Joyce Carol

ISBN 10: 275785982X ISBN 13: 9782757859827

Publisher: POINTS, 2016

Synopsis

Tout semble aller pour le mieux dans la petite ville de Carthage en ce début de juillet 2005, si ce n’est que Juliet Mayfield, la ravissante fille de l’ancien maire a, pour des raisons peu claires, rompu ses fiançailles avec le caporal Brett Kincaid, héros de retour de la guerre d’Irak. Un héros très entamé dans sa chair et dans sa tête, dont pourtant Cressida, la jeune soeur rebelle de Juliet, est secrètement amoureuse. Or, ce soir-là, Cressida disparaît, ne laissant en fait de traces que quelques gouttes de son sang dans la jeep de Brett. Qui devient alors le suspect numéro 1 et, contre toute attente, avoue le meurtre... Sept ans après, un étrange personnage surgit pour peut-être résoudre l’impossible mystère.

About this title

About the Author:

Née en 1938, Joyce Carol Oates, membre de l’Académie des Arts et des Lettres, est une nouvelliste et romancière prolifique et mondialement reconnue, récompensée par de nombreux prix littéraires. La plupart de ses titres sont disponibles en Points.

Review:

“Knotted, tense, digressive and brilliant.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review))

Oates (The Accursed) returns with another novel that ratchets up the unsettling to her signature feverish pitch... Once again, Oates’s gift for exposing the frailty--and selfishness--of humans is on display. (Publishers Weekly (starred review))

“After her lavishly imagined, supernatural historical novel, The Accursed (2013), Oates turns in the latest of her intensely magnified studies of a family in crisis and the agony of a misfit girl.” (Booklist)

“Joyce Carol Oates has outdone herself.” (NPR)

“Joyce Carol Oates is known for richly detailed portraits of American families asunder. CARTHAGE is a stunning contribution to her storied canon.” (Kirkus)

“...Oates shows how perilous it is to assign guilt, and how hard it is to draw the line between victim and perpetrator in a blurred moral landscape in which every crime, on the battlefield or on the home front, is a crime of conscience.” (New York Times Book Review)

“For pages on end it is a compelling mediation on belief, betrayal, and grief. Oates has written a good book. I’d recommend it. What does it matter if it is or is not a war novel. The best war novels aren’t war novels at all. They become something bigger.” (Daily Beast)

“...brilliant...amazing.... A compassionate tenderness suffuses the final sections of the book, as palpable as the cold irony with which the book begins. It’s a breathtaking effect...” (Washington Post)

“Oates, working at the top of her formidable game, handily won over more of our readers with this raw, suspenseful, ‘real and immersive’ stream-of-consciousness tale.” (Elle, Lettres 2014 Readers Prize)

“a well-told tale of family, grief and faith” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

“Irresistible page-turner and heady intellectual experience... Oates continues to make her mark as one of the greatest American writers of our time.” (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

“Emphatically and artfully explores the subject of physical and emotional distances between loved ones, the various expanses between who individuals are, were, or could be, and the often barely perceptible gaps between guilt and innocence.” (Philadelphia Inquirer)

“...one of America’s greatest writers...” (Roanoke Times)

About this edition

• Publisher: POINTS
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 275785982X
• ISBN 13: 9782757859827
• Binding: Pocket Book
• Number of pages: 608