by Joyce Carol Oates · POINTS · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782757890035
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«La nuit, le sommeil, la mort, les étoiles» is the novel by Joyce Carol Oates, published by POINTS in paperback (912 pages, in French).
Whitey, former mayor of Hammond (New York), dies after intervening in a violent altercation between the police and a Black man; his death is passed off as an accident. The novel follows his family through grief and reconstruction, intertwining intimate drama with the ghosts of contemporary America.
Original title: «Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.». French translation by Claude Seban. Published in 2022 by POINTS.
For readers of literary fiction and fans of Joyce Carol Oates seeking a long novel in French about family, grief, and American society.
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).
