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Butcher

By: Joyce Carol Oates
Narrated by: Amy Shiels, Edoardo Ballerini, Cassandra Campbell, Robert Fass, Tavia Gilbert, Jeremy Carlisle Parker, Danny Campbell, Max Meyers
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‘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Based on authentic historical documents, Butcher is a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche.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

©2024 Joyce Carol Oates (P)2024 Penguin Random House LLC Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Horror Literary Fiction Psychological
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Some people are just fucking evil. Absolutely gory, ugly, very descriptive acts of pure evil against women.

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