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Beasts (Otto Penzler Books) by Joyce Carol Oates and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru  · Beasts, Joyce Carol Oates Beasts is a novella by Joyce Carol Oates and was originally published in Set in an apparently idyllic New England college town in the 's, Beasts is the story of Gillian Brauer, a talented young student obsessed with her charismatic anti-establishment English professor Andre Harrow/5(). 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 of how a sunny New England college campus descends into a 4/5(65).

Beasts by Joyce Carol Oates pp, Orion, £ Another new novel by Joyce Carol Oates? Wasn't there one published just a few months ago, and another one six months or so before that? Readers. — Joyce Carol Oates I read BEASTS over the weekend and thought it was marvellous - a near perfect novella. Every thing I read by Oates (the short novel ZOMBIE is particularly good) moves her closer to being one of my favourite writers. Wonderful stuff. Anyone else read it? Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: Posted From: Best Worst of Joyce Carol Oates Posted on February 8, by At Home With Books Each Wednesday I am featuring a guest post by a book blogger detailing which books they think are the "best" and "worst" by the author of their choice.

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