Mysteries of Winterthurn - Softcover

Oates, Joyce Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062795740 ISBN 13: 9780062795748

Publisher: Ecco Press, 2018

Synopsis

In Mysteries of Winterthurn, the brilliant young detective-hero Xavier Kilgarvan is confronted with three baffling cases--"The Virgin in the Rose-Bower," "The Devil's Half-Acre," and "The Blood-Stained Gown"--that tax his genius for detection to the utmost, just as his forbidden passion for his cousin Perdita becomes an obsession that shapes his life.

About this title

About the Author:

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 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, 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. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. 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.

From the Back Cover:

Compelling and propulsive, Mysteries of Winterthurn is the author's favorite among her several acclaimed and controversial Gothic novels

In Mysteries of Winterthurn, the brilliant young detective- hero Xavier Kilgarvan is confronted with three baffling cases--"The Virgin in the Rose-Bower," "Devil's Half- Acre," and "The Blood-Stained Gown"--that tax his genius for detection to the utmost, just as his forbidden passion for his cousin Perdita becomes an obsession that shapes his life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0062795740
• ISBN 13: 9780062795748
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 656