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      The Female of the Species

      by Joyce Carol Oates
      Published
      Sep 2005
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      288
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      A young wife is home alone when the phone rings in "So Help Me God." Is the strange voice flirting with her from the other end of the line her jealous husband laying a trap, or a stranger who knows entirely too much about her? In "Madison at Guignol" an unhappy fusionist discovers a secret door inside her favorite clothing store and insists the staff let her enter. But even her fevered imagination cannot anticipate the horror they have been hiding from her. In these and other gripping and disturbing tales, Joyce Carol Oates demonstrates why the females of the species - be they six-year-old girls, seemingly devoted wives, or aging mothers - are by nature more deadly than the males.

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      Jan 2007 Mariner ISBN13 9780156030274 ISBN10 0156030276
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      First Edition Sep 2005 Harcourt ISBN13 9780151011797 ISBN10 0151011796
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      May 2006 Quercus ISBN13 9781905204106 ISBN10 1905204108
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      Dec 2010 Daedalus ISBN13 9780594000754 ISBN10 0594000750
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