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Item Details
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MIDDLE AGE
A ROMANCE |
| By: |
Joyce Carol Oates |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£14.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0007336608 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780007336609 |
| Publisher: |
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS |
| Pub. date: |
1 August, 2009 |
| Pages: |
560 |
| Description: |
A tender, hilarious novel about contemporary America. With `Middle Age' Joyce Carol Oates has been acclaimed as one of the most important writers of her time. |
| Synopsis: |
A tender, hilarious novel about contemporary America. With `Middle Age' Joyce Carol Oates has been acclaimed as one of the most important writers of her time.Salthill-on-Hudson is half an hour outside New York, a place where the inhabitants are beautiful, rich and, though they look younger than they really are, middle-aged.When the enigmatic sculptor Adam Berendt dies suddenly, his death sends shock waves through the town. His loss and rumours of Adam's possible lovers force the community to re-evaluate their lives.Adam's lawyer, Roger Cavanagh, who has broken the law for Adam's sake, becomes involved with an elusive and perhaps treacherous young woman. Marina Troy exiles herself to fulfil a wish Adam had made for her. Lionel sets out, unwisely but with great hope, to re capture his youth lost after a lifetime of financial success, even as his wife Camille discovers an unspeakable joy close to home. Augusta Cutler, a hitherto sensuous, unreflective woman, sets out defiantly to solve the mystery of Adam's origins.`Middle Age' is an intimately drawn group portrait and a richly sympathetic yet unsparingly comic portrait of present-day affluent America from one of the finest writers of contemporary fiction. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Fourth Estate Ltd |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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