Reception
Publishers Weekly writes: "The four novellas in this spellbinding collection from Oates carefully tread the boundary between psychological and supernatural expressions of the macabre...This superb outing is sure to captivate." [3]
Literary critic Elena Hartwell at the New York Review of Books writes: "Using her remarkable, literary voice to investigate the psychological experiences of victims, Oates requires that we willingly suspend our disbelief and reject realism as a means to identify societal truths." [4]
Reviewer Rob Latham at LARB provides a critical compendium of Oates's oeuvre. Latham writes:
While some of Oates's thrillers verge on classic noir in their hard-boiled tone, the novellas in Cardiff, by the Sea have a more languid, melancholy air, strongly reminiscent of the work of Daphne du Maurier. [5]
Despite the reassuring settings and tone, readers should be prepared for "eruptions of violence as dark and ugly as in any splatter movie." [6]
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