Beasts (Otto Penzler Books)
by Joyce Carol Oates
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Author: Joyce Carol OatesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-11-22
ISBN: 0786711035
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Book Review: ...wonderful are the Hellish experiences
Summary: 5 Stars
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. As a twenty year old student, Gillian was in love... With poetry and particularly with her charismatic poetry workshop professor. That he was married to an eccentric sculptress made no difference, she (like many in the all girls Catamount College, in the Berkshire Mountains) was deeply infatuated with him. Her story begins as romantic, schoolgirl dream, but slowly transforms into something much more nightmarish... Fires are burning, both literally and figuratively in this work: acts of arson appear opposite aroused passions, and as Gillian's (and the other members of her poetry workshop) infatuations deepen into something much darker, much more primal, the question soon becomes just how many will end up consumed?
Joyce Carol Oates possesses an enviable ear for language, a talent for creating absorbing and illuminating psychological landscapes for her rich, quirky characters, and an excellent skill at interweaving the stuff of the gothic with more modern narrative sensibilities. Beasts demonstrates her talents in this slender, engaging story. It is powerful without resorting to melodrama, insightful and elucidating without navel gazing. In short, Beasts is fiction of the highest caliber, which I am already longing to revisit...
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