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Beasts is a novella by Joyce Carol Oates and was originally published in 2001. Plot summary. Set in an apparently idyllic New England college town in the 1970s, Beasts is the story of Gillian Brauer, a talented young student obsessed with her charismatic anti-establishment English professor Andre Harrow.
26. Aug. 2011 · Beasts : Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Publication date. 2002. Topics. College students, College teachers, College teachers' spouses. Publisher. New York, NY : Carroll & Graf. Collection. internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled. Contributor. Internet Archive
22. Nov. 2002 · Paperback – November 22, 2002. by Joyce Carol Oates (Author) 4.3 72 ratings. See all formats and editions. A young woman tumbles into a nightmare of decadent desire and corrupted innocence in a superb novella of suspense from National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates.
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1. Jan. 2001 · Oates’s newest novella is a tale of academe similar to (though darker than) such earlier books as The Hungry Ghosts (1974) and American Appetites (1989). The story begins and ends in Paris, in the Louvre, where protagonist Gillian Brauer observes a garishly expressionistic “totem” that triggers buried memories of her college years.
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19. Dez. 2001 · A young woman tumbles into a nightmare of decadent desire and corrupted innocence in a superb novella of suspense from National Book Award–winner Joyce Carol Oates. Art and arson, the poetry of...
20. Apr. 2011 · The novel (novella, in fact) starts some 25 years after the main events of the novel, when our narrator is at the Louvre in Paris and sees a piece of sculpture that reminds her of the work of Harrow’s wife, Dorcas. The sculpture is an earthy totemic piece that is “primitively human” or, in fact, rather beast-like.
Beasts . By Joyce Carol Oates. New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers , 2002. 138 pp. "I had not been forbidden to go upstairs, exactly," the young, female narrator of Joyce Carol Oates's novella, Beasts , tells us. "But of course I ven-tured upstairs." We are two thirds of the way through this tiny book, and if
