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Beasts is a novella by Joyce Carol Oates and was originally published in 2001. Plot summary. Set in an apparently idyllic New England college town in the 1970s, Beasts is the story of Gillian Brauer, a talented young student obsessed with her charismatic anti-establishment English professor Andre Harrow.
26 de ago. de 2011 · Beasts by Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-Publication date 2002 Topics College students, College teachers, College teachers' spouses Publisher New York, NY : Carroll & Graf Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English "An Otto Penzler book."
A young woman tumbles into a nightmare of decadent desire and corrupted innocence in a superb novella of suspense from National Book Award–winner Joyce Carol Oates. Art and arson, the poetry of...
22 de nov. de 2002 · A young woman tumbles into a nightmare of decadent desire and corrupted innocence in a superb novella of suspense from National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates. Art and arson, the poetry of D. H. Lawrence and pulp pornography, hero-worship and sexual debasement, totems and taboos mix and mutate into a startling, suspenseful tale ...
1 de ene. de 2001 · shop now. Oates’s newest novella is a tale of academe similar to (though darker than) such earlier books as The Hungry Ghosts (1974) and American Appetites (1989). The story begins and ends in Paris, in the Louvre, where protagonist Gillian Brauer observes a garishly expressionistic “totem” that triggers buried memories of her ...
20 de abr. de 2011 · The novel (novella, in fact) starts some 25 years after the main events of the novel, when our narrator is at the Louvre in Paris and sees a piece of sculpture that reminds her of the work of Harrow’s wife, Dorcas. The sculpture is an earthy totemic piece that is “primitively human” or, in fact, rather beast-like.
1 de ene. de 2003 · This novella opens in 2001, with protagonist Gillian Brauer discovering a piece of totemic artwork in Paris. The discovery triggers memories of tumultuous events from her college years, some 26 years before.
