Joyce Carol Oates Middle Age: a romance Paperback Book

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. SalthillonHudson is half an hour outside New York, a place where the inhabitants are beautiful, rich and, though they look younger than they really are, middleaged. When the enigmatic sculptor Adam Berendt dies suddenly, his death sends shock waves through the town. His loss and rumours of Adams possible lovers force the community to reevaluate their lives. Adams lawyer, Roger Cavanagh, who has broken the law for Adams 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 Adams origins. Middle Age is an intimately drawn group portrait and a richly sympathetic yet unsparingly comic portrait of presentday affluent America from one of the finest writers of contemporary fiction. | Joyce Carol Oates Middle Age: a romance Paperback Book