Book cover for Cutting Edge: thrilling feminist noir tales of crime and mystery by Joyce Carol Oates

Cutting Edge

thrilling feminist noir tales of crime and mystery

2020 Released
240 Pages
3-4 Hours
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Pushkin VertigoISBN 9781782276524

'Drowning, stabbing, shooting, beheading: the fun is endless' The Times, Best Crime Fiction for November

'Murder, mystery and mayhem wreak havoc in these 15 twisty tales which transform victim into victor' Daily Mail

'It would make an ideal present for a wicked aunt, but bear in mind giving it might be seen as incitement to murder' Sunday Times

In the old days, all werewolves were men. Margaret Atwood

In this slyly subversive noir anthology, Joyce Carol Oates has invited some of the world's most celebrated authors to take their shot at the patriarchy.

Featuring stories and poems from Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, Valerie Martin, Aimee Bender, Edwidge Danticat, Sheila Kohler, S.A. Solomon, S.J. Rozan, Lucy Taylor, Cassandra Khaw, Bernice L. McFadden, Jennifer Morales, Elizabeth McCracken, Livia Llewellyn, Lisa Lim, and Steph Cha.

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

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