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Beasts

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Art and arson,the poetry of D. H. Lawrence and pulp pornography, hero-worship and sexual debasement, totems, and taboos - out of narrative elements like these National Book Award-winner Joyce Carol Oates, oneof the most adroit voices in contemporary American fiction, contrives a startling, suspenseful tale that turns a sunny idyll of New England college campus life into a lurid nightmare.

A bright, talented junior at Catamount College in the druggy 1970s, Gillian Brauer strives to realize more that a poet's craft in her workshop with the charismatic, antiestablishment professor Andre Harrow. For Gillian has fallen in love - with Harrow , with his aesthetic sensibility and bohemian lifestyle, with his secluded cottage on imposing, russet-haired French wife, Dorcas. A sculptress, Dorcas has outraged the campus and alumnae with the crude, primitive, larger than life-sized wooden totems that she has exhibited under the motto "we are beasts and this is our consolation."

As if mesmerized, Gillian enters the rarefied world of the Harrows. She surrenders to their cassoulets, Quaaludes and intimacies. She is special, even though she knows her classmates Marisa and Sybil and the exotic, mysterious Dominique have preceded her here. She is helpless, she is powerful. And she will learn in full the meaning of Dorcas's provocative motto.

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823 OAT b

Publisher

New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers., 2002

Collation

138 p.; ilus.; 20 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-7867-0896-4

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823

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Edition

Cet.1, 2002

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English Fiction

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