Beasts - Hardcover

Oates, Joyce Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786708964 ISBN 13: 9780786708963

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, 2001

Synopsis

A young woman tumbles into a nightmare of deadly desire in a superb novella of suspense from National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates.

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Review:

Revered in the States, where she has won many awards - and Oprah's approval - Oates has yet to make a real impact in Britain, despite a sequence of much-praised novels, including Blonde, her take on Monroe, and Black Water, which took its cue from Kennedy and Chappaquiddick. This one is set on an American campus in the mid-Seventies, in the long shadow of Vietnam. Gillian Brauer is in thrall to the charismatic and libertarian Professor Andrew Harrow - Andr to favoured students. His wife, Dorcas, is a sculptress whose works - exhibited under the motto 'we are beasts and this is our consolation' - might be described as primitive. Gillian is soon drawn, helpless, into their private world, when the real meaning of the motto becomes all too clear. One for readers of psychological suspense.

Book Description:

A powerful, haunting novella from one of America's most honoured writers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0786708964
• ISBN 13: 9780786708963
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 138