Zombie: A Novel

Joyce Carol Oates

Nov 2009 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

Zombie is a classic novel of dark obsession from the extraordinary Joyce Carol Oates. A brilliant, unflinching journey into the mind of a serial killer, Zombie views the world through the eyes of Quentin P., newly paroled sex offender, as he chillingly evolves from rapist to mass murderer. Joyce Carol Oates—the prolific author of so many extraordinary bestsellers, including The Gravediggers Daughter, Blonde, and The Falls—demonstrates why she ranks among America’s most respected and accomplished literary artists with this provocative, breathtaking, and disturbing masterwork.

Ratings and reviews

Zombie is definitley much different than what Joyce Carol Oates normally writes, even her darker works, but that is not a bad thing. You totally forget about the author and you start reading and believing the diary of a sexual psychopath who is totally sociopathic and unsympathetic. The murders and fantasies that Quentin P. enacts and raves about are grotesque, realistic, and disturbing. This book is obviously inspired by Jeffrey Dahmer and could even be passed as his actual diary.

Horrible diary of a human predator. Well written. Concise.

Decent book list ending.. Lot of visceral descriptions

About the author

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.