Middle Age: A Romance
Joyce Carol Oates
(Author)
Description
In Salthill-on-Hudson, a half-hour train ride from Manhattan, everyone is rich, beautiful, and -- though they look much younger -- middle-aged. But when Adam Berendt, a charismatic, mysterious sculptor, dies suddenly in a brash act of heroism, shock waves rock the town. But who was Adam Berendt? Was he in fact a hero, or someone more flawed and human?
Product Details
| Publisher | Ecco |
| Publish Date | October 01, 2002 |
| Pages | 480 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780060934903 |
| Dimensions | 8.0 X 5.3 X 1.1 inches | 15.3 pounds |
About the Author
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
Reviews
“Hilarious and mournful. [Oates’s] realism is laced with suspense, her mastery of storytelling on full display.” — Newsweek
“A magnificent treat.… Middle Age is the work of a master in her prime.” — San Francisco Chronicle
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