Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong

<b>From Joyce Carol Oates, literary icon and author of <i>BLONDE</i>, now a major motion picture, a collection of four dark and compelling novellas about love gone wrong.</b><br><br>The young fourth wife of a prominent intellectual thinks herself happy until the first wife comes to stay. A shy teenager meets a dazzling kindred spirit. But the first sparks of young love soon take on a darker shade...<br><br>A spoiled frat boy decides to murder his parents, only to be floored by the power of his mother's love; and a fragile woman reveals deeply buried secrets to her curious lover with devastating consequences...<br><br>All of these stories are about love, just not as we like to think of it.<br><br><b>Reviews for Joyce Carol Oates:</b><br><br>'A writer of extraordinary strengths.' <b><i>Guardian</i></b> <br>'Oates chillingly depicts the darkness lurking within the everyday.' <b><i>Sunday Express</i></b> <br>'Both haunting and sublime.' <b><i>Literary Review</i></b> <br>'Splendidly chilling.' <b><i>Financial Times</i></b> <br>'Visceral, psychologically involving, and socially astute.' <b><i>Booklist</i></b>