The corn maiden and other nightmares
By: Joyce Carol Oates
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780802126023
Subjects: Short stories
Description: A volume of six stories and novellas by the National Book Award-winning author of We Were the Mulvaneys includes the title story, in which the disappearance of a sweet blonde-haired child is linked to her mother's indiscretions, a too-obvious schoolteacher and an older student with a fascination for a Native American legend.
Table of contents: title: Corn maiden --; title: Beersheba --; title: Nobody knows my name --; title: Fossil-figures --; title: Death-cup --; title: Helping hands --; title: A hole in the head.