<b>From the towering imagination of Joyce Carol Oates, literary icon and author of <i>BLONDE</i>, now a major motion picture, seven feverishly unsettling works of suspense.</b>.A precocious eleven-year-old, in thrall to the mysterious black sheep of the family, climbs into his sky-blue Chevy to be driven to an uncertain, unforgettable, fate. A university student becomes obsessed with the murder of a female classmate as her own sense of self deteriorates. A recent widow grieves inside her lakefront home and fantasizes about transforming into a great flying predator ¿ unerring and pitiless in the hunt.These meticulously crafted, deeply disquieting stories confront the dangers that surround us, and the dangers that lurk within.<b>Reviews for Joyce Carol Oates:</b>''A writer of extraordinary strengths.'' <b><i>Guardian</i></b> ''Oates chillingly depicts the darkness lurking within the everyday.'' <b><i>Sunday Express</i></b> ''Both haunting and sublime.'' <b><i>Literary Review</i></b> ''Sp