'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Based on authentic historical documents, Butcher is a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche.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
| ISBN: | 9780008694913 |
| Publication date: | 22nd May 2025 |
| Author: | Joyce Carol Oates |
| Publisher: | 4th Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 331 pages |
| Genres: |
Medical thriller Psychological thriller Modern and Contemporary Fiction Historical crime and mysteries Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction Horror and Supernatural Fiction Historical Fiction |
'Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going' GILLIAN FLYNN'Gripping … Bravura storytelling' VOGUE'A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare' FINANCIAL TIMESFrom 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women who have been neglected by the state - women he subjects to grotesque modes of experimentation.Based on authentic historical documents, Butcher is a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche.'A ghastly and harrowing page-turner' STEPHEN KING, via X'A triumph of style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
Butcher features in the following genres: Medical thriller, Psychological thriller, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Horror and Supernatural Fiction, Historical Fiction
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Butcher was written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by 4th Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Butcher has 331 pages
£8.99, reduced from £9.99. In Stock.