The Evil Eye

The fourth wife of a much older man thinks she is happy until the first wife comes to stay... A lonely outsider meets a dazzling kindred spirit, but first love soon turns sour... A drugged-up frat boy decides to murder his parents for their money, but is floored by the power of his mother's love... A fragile woman revisits her childhood abuse in order to satisfy a curious lover. All these stories are about love. But not as we like to think of it. Winner of the National Book Award, Joyce Carol Oates is the queen of the gothic undertow.