Butcher

’Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going’ GILLIAN FLYNN ’Gripping ? Bravura storytelling’ VOGUE ’A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare’ FINANCIAL TIMES From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a nineteenth-century women’s asylum, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world. Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Dr Silas Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics. There, his work focuses on women who have been neglected by the state – women he subjects to grotesque modes of experimentation. Based on authentic historical documents, Butcher is a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche. ’A ghastly and harrowing page-turner’ STEPHEN KING, via X ’A triumph of style and brio’ FINANCIAL TIMES ’Terrifying’ FLAUNT ’Vividly and compellingly-drawn’ iNEWS

• Författare: Joyce Carol Oates
• Format: Pocket
• ISBN: 9780008694913
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 352
• Utgivningsdatum: 2025-05-22
• Förlag: HarperCollins Publishers