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An Otto Penzler Book The requirement for love—obsessive, self destructive, unpredictable—takes us to unacceptable areas, as in the relaxing world of Give Me Your Heart, a brand new assortment of tales from the inimitable Joyce Carol Oates. Within the suspenseful “Strip Poker,” a careless teenage woman should discover a way of turning the tables on the collecting of progressively terrifying youthful men—Can she “outplay” them? Within the prize-winning “Smother!” a woman’s headache recollection of youth provides trouble on her behalf teacher-mother—Which of these may “win”? In “Split/Brain” a lady who has blundered right into a situation affects the chance of conserving herself—Will it is taken by her?