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Butcher
- Author
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 21 May 2024
- Run Time
- 13 hours 11 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
‘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Based on authentic historical documents, Butcher is a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche.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
Critics Review
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'A ghastly and harrowing page-turner … Faint of heart? Stay away' Stephen King, via X
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‘A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare … A triumph of style and brio’ Financial Times
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An empathic and discerning commentary on women’s rights, the abuses of patriarchy and the servitude of the poor and disenfranchised' The New York Times Book Review
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'Butcher is vivid and compellingly drawn, its prose scalpel-sharp … Oates remains a master storyteller with her finger on the pulse of humanity, forever alive to its moral failures and flaw' iNews
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'Terrifying, Oates’ storytelling so effective that at times I found myself averting my eyes from the words on the page’ Flaunt
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'A creepy, circuitous tale … splendidly written' Kirkus
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'Oates' writing is so deft and the world she creates so vivid, one keeps turning the pages, all the way to the deeply unsettling ending' The New York Journal of Books
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'Butcher is JCO at her best … an essential text for understanding America’s long war on women' CrimeReads, 'The Best Historical Fiction of 2024'
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'Humour doesn’t get more macabre than this’ Sophie Mackintosh, Literary Review
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Praise for Joyce Carol Oates:
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‘One of the greatest — and most productive — living American writers’ Financial Times
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'Oates is a massive literary heavyweight, and many earnestly believe she could knock the other contenders for the title of Great American Novelist' Guardian
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‘[A] notoriously prolific chronicler of America’s cracked, calamitous heart’ Esquire
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‘America’s preeminent fiction writer’ The New Yorker
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Details
- Author
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 13 hours 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 21 May 2024
- ISBN
- 9780008694906
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Medical thriller, Psychological thriller, Historical fiction, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Historical crime and mysteries, Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction
Synopsis
‘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
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