BELLEFLEUR

Joyce Carol Oates

ISBN 10: 0525063021 / ISBN 13: 9780525063025

Published by Dutton Adult, New York, 1980

About this Item

Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Shelf wear to panels. Toning to flaps. Creasing to upper edge of front and rear panels. Sticker to rear panel. ; 7.70 X 4.60 X 1.10 inches; 558 pages. Seller Inventory # 111091

Bibliographic Details

Title: BELLEFLEUR

Publisher: Dutton Adult, New York

Publication Date: 1980

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: First Edition; Second Printing.

About this title

Synopsis:

Portrays six generations of eccentric characters, all part of the wealthy and notorious Bellefleur clan, as they are affected by historical events such as the War of 1812 and Lincoln's assassination

About the Author:

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.