by Joyce Carol Oates · CRUÏLLA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466107327
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«Xerres massa» is the young adult novel by Joyce Carol Oates, published by Cruïlla in paperback (224 pages, in Catalan).
Matt, a sixteen-year-old teenager, is falsely accused of planning an attack on his high school. In a society marked by the psychosis of attacks and the memory of the Columbine massacre, classmates, teachers, and neighbors distance themselves from him. Only Úrsula, an unconventional classmate, decides to believe him and support him.
Catalan edition translated by Ada Arbós of the original novel «Big Mouth & Ugly Girl», by Joyce Carol Oates. Volume 131 of the Gran Angular collection, published in 2003.
Novel aimed at readers aged 12 to 17, within realistic young adult 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).
