The need for loveobsessive, self-destructive, unpredictabletakes us to forbidden places, as in the chilling world of Give Me Your Heart, a new collection of stories by the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates. In the suspenseful Strip Poker, a reckless adolescent girl must find a way of turning the tables on a gathering of increasingly threatening young mencan she outplay them? In Smother! a young womans nightmare memory of childhood brings trouble on her professor motherwhich of them will win? In Split/Brain a woman who has blundered into a lethal situation confronts the possibility of saving herselfwill she take it? In The First Husband, a jealous man discovers that his wife seems to have lied about her first marriage, and exacts a cruel revenge, years after the fact.
