Cardiff, by the Sea Four Novellas of Suspense is a novel by author Joyce Carol Oates.
A Pennsylvania scholar uncovers a terrifying trauma to her past after inheriting a home in Cardiff, Maine, from someone she’s never heard of.
A teenage girl, overcoming loneliness, befriends a feral cat who becomes her protector from the increasingly aggressive males that surround her.
A brilliant but shy college sophomore is heartbroken when she discovers that she is pregnant, and the professor who has lured her under his protection may not have innocent intentions. And a woman who marries in a family shattered by tragedy finds herself haunted by her predecessor’s voice, an inexplicable well, and an irresistible attraction to a garage. took two lives.
In these daring, suspenseful psychological works, the author of We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde writes about women facing past and present threats, once again reinforcing her reputation for “wonderful intelligence and deadly power of imagination”.
