EAN: 9781524712365

BABYSITTER - JOYCE CAROL OATES KARTONIERT (TB)

From one of America’s most renowned storytellers—the bestselling author of Blonde—comes a novel
about love and deceit  and lust and redemption  against a backdrop of shocking murders in the
affluent suburbs of Detroit.Hannah’s unreliable  elliptical narrative is seductive and
compelling  like following someone into a fever dream ... [Oates] is in no hurry to trigger the
action  dropping tiny morsels of foreshadowing to keep us on our toes. —The New York Times Book
ReviewUnsettling  mysterious  deft  sinister  eerily plausible.” —Margaret Atwood  best-selling
author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments  via Twitter In the waning days of the
turbulent 1970s  in the wake of unsolved child-killings that have shocked Detroit  the lives of
several residents are drawn together with tragic consequences. There is Hannah  wife of a
prominent local businessman  who has begun an affair with a darkly charismatic stranger whose
identity remains elusive  Mikey  a canny street hustler who finds himself on a chilling mission
to rectify injustice  and the serial killer known as Babysitter  an enigmatic and terrifying
figure at the periphery of elite Detroit. As Babysitter continues his rampage of abductions and
killings  these individuals intersect with one another in startling and unexpected ways.
Suspenseful  brilliantly orchestrated  and engrossing  Babysitter is a starkly narrated
exploration of the riskiness of pursuing alternate lives  calling into question how far we are
willing to go to protect those whom we cherish most. In its scathing indictment of corrupt
politics  unexamined racism  and the enabling of sexual predation in America  Babysitter is a
thrilling work of contemporary fiction.

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