Little Bird of Heaven, (Paperback)

from LynnB

Joyce Carol Oates is one of my favourite authors. She knows how to tell a great story and to develop characters that stay with me. This novel is dark, like most of her books, filled with both passion and violence. It explores the impact of being a "person of interest" in a murder investigation. W...

from pak6th

There are two suspects in the murder of a young mother, her husband and her lover. But neither is ever arrested. The children, Aaron and Krista, are each sure the other's father killed Zoe, and they are caught in a romantic, sexual and violent relationship as they struggle to deal with the conseq...

from Kasthu

I first discovered Joyce Carol Oates about ten years ago, when I read one of her short stories ("Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" It's a MUST read, by the way). I fell in love with her stories and novels because of the subject matter; Oates's novels usually deal with obsession usually o...

from SamSattler

Little Bird of Heaven is vintage Joyce Carol Oates, so much so, in fact, that fans of her writing will immediately recognize the novel's setting and tone. Krista Diehl, the young girl whose father Eddie is suspected of the brutal murder of his mistress, is beginning to realize just how dangerous ...

from Kasthu

I first discovered Joyce Carol Oates about ten years ago, when I read one of her short stories ("Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" It's a MUST read, by the way). I fell in love with her stories and novels because of the subject matter; Oates's novels usually deal with obsession usually o...