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A Bloodsmoor Romance

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JCO Bibliography - Novels & Novellas (61 items)
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Description: Joyce Carol Oates's Bellefleur was hailed by critics as "a masterpiece" and "a gothic of major proportions." Now, here is her version of the nineteenth-century romance. Steeped in Victoriana and told by a demure, virgin narrator, A Bloodsmoor Romance is an ingenious blend of myth and history, humor and profundity, the sublime and the grotesque. It is a rich account of one family's "ignominious" history and provides us with a singular vision of America's formative years. It all begins when Miss Deirdre Zinn, adopted daughter of inventor John Quincy Zinn, is abducted in broad daylight by "an ... (more)
Manufacturer: E P Dutton
Release date: 31 July 1982
ISBN-10 : 0525241124 |
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