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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.
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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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
1. Jan. 2001 · shop now. 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 ...
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The novella's atmosphere is rank with erotically suggestive imagery from the D.H. Lawrence poems Gillian devours, and the innuendoes and allusions that emerge naturally in conversation between ...
The Beast in the Jungle is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection The Better Sort. Almost universally considered one of James' finest short narratives, this story treats appropriately universal themes: loneliness, fate, love and death.
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.
