by Joyce Carol Oates · Fiordo Editorial SL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9791399043846
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In 'Black Water', Joyce Carol Oates introduces us to Kelly Kelleher, a young, intelligent, and attractive woman whose encounter with a Democratic senator at a Fourth of July party takes a tragic turn. Following a car accident, where the senator drives drunk with Kelly as a passenger, the car plunges into a river, unleashing a desperate struggle for survival and exposing a corrupt political system. Narrated from Kelly's perspective, the novel is a chronicle of her thoughts and her longing for salvation, revealing the manipulation and abuse of power that emerge after the accident. A revealing and necessary work that stirs deep emotions, highlighting Oates' relevance in contemporary literature.
Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collection Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award for her novel Them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).
