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Middle Age a Romance
In Salthill, on Hudson, half an hour outside New York, the inhabitant 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. Middle age, ordinarily not a time for passion romance, is transformed by his loss as his close friends evaluate their lives and set out to te-define in starling and original ways.
Middle Age is a richly sympathetic yet unsparingly comic view of present-day affluent Americ from one of the finest writers of contemporary fiction.
'A stylish and wise chronicle of transformation and regeneration.' Jonathan Bate, Sunday Telegraph.
'The richness and excitement of Oates' novels lie in their hyperreal description of modern life,' Sunday Times.
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