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Joyce Carol Oates

The Corn Maiden


One day an 11-year-old girl disappears. She was playing with friends from school. The crop is strengthened by her blood…

Marissa is an innocent girl, with hair the colour of corn-silk. She does not hold others in strange thrall, as some young women do, she obeys her parents, she does not stay late after school, lingering on her walk through the swaying heads of maize. She is the perfect sacrifice…

In Joyce Carol Oates' nightmarish world, teenaged girls are empowered by ritual killing, plastic surgeons perform bloodcurdling operations and birthdays rip families apart. Compulsively readable, told in razor-sharp prose, The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares is the brilliant new offspring of one of America's most terrifying imaginations.

335 printed pages
Copyright owner
Head of Zeus
Publication year
2012
Publisher
Head of Zeus
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Quotes

  • Zaria Sangyumhas quoted2 months ago
    “Why don’t they like me, Mommy?”

    “Why do they make fun of me, Mommy?”
  • Zaria Sangyumhas quoted2 months ago
    ost students were privileged, well-to-do. Very privileged
  • Zaria Sangyumhas quoted2 months ago
    And she would walk with school friends. (Would she?)

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