Lovely Dark Deep

<p>From the legendary literary master winner of the National Book Award and <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates a collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all.</p><p>Insightful disturbing imaginative and breathtaking in their lyrical precision the stories in <em>Lovely Dark Deep</em> display Joyce Carol Oates's magnificent ability to make visceral the terror hurt and uncertainty that lurks at the edges of ordinary lives.</p><p>In Mastiff a woman and a man are joined in an erotic bond forged out of terror and gratitude. Sex with Camel explores how a sixteen-year-old boy realizes the depth of his love for his grandmother--and how vulnerable those feelings make him. Fearful that that her husband is disappearing from their life a woman becomes obsessed with keeping him in her sight in The Disappearing. A Book of Martyrs reveals how the end of a pregnancy brings with it the end of a relationship. And in the title story the elderly Robert Frost is visited by an interviewer an unsettling young woman who seems to know a good deal more about his life than she should.</p><p>A piercing and evocative collection <em>Lovely Dark Deep</em> reveals an artist at the height of her creative power.</p>