{"product_id":"the-corn-maiden","title":"The Corn Maiden: And Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense [2022] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the towering imagination of literary icon Joyce Carol Oates comes an unbearably taut tale combining folklore, adolescent insecurity and blood sacrifice, and six other, nightmarish, stories.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwice nominated for the Nobel Prize, Joyce Carol Oates presents an unbearably taut and terrifying tale combining the fury of folklore and adolescent insecurity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarissa is an innocent girl, with hair the colour of corn-silk. She does not hold others in strange thrall, as some young women do, she obeys her parents, she does not stay late after school, lingering on her walk through the swaying heads of maize. She is the perfect sacrifice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Corn Maiden\u003c\/i\u003e is a novella, followed by six other nightmares.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oates, Joyce Carol","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42496765821113,"sku":"9781801102964","price":11.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/oates-joyce-carol-the-corn-maiden-and-other-stories-of-mystery-and-suspense-2022-paperback-9781801102964-1156307746.jpg?v=1744830685","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/the-corn-maiden","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}