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Original Title:	Beasts
ISBN:	0786711035 (ISBN13: 9780786711031)
Edition Language:	English

Beasts

Joyce Carol Oates

Paperback | Pages: 154 pages

Rating: 3.57 | 3271 Users | 337 Reviews

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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 D. H. Lawrence and pulp pornography, hero-worship and sexual debasement, totems and taboos mix and mutate into a startling, suspenseful tale of how a sunny New England college campus descends into a lurid nightmare. "A small gem.... Oates does not disappoint, nor does she waste a word."—The Washington Post Book World Oates often takes on sensational subject matter ... yet rarely has she done so with the churningly quiet understatement of ... Beasts."—Los Angeles Times "A cunning fusion of Gothic romance and psychological horror story, and one of her best recent books."—Kirkus Reviews "Oates's new novel is a slim one, but it packs a serious punch."—Associated Press "Delicious ... Beasts is something of a jeu d'esprit noir.... The novella length is exactly right for it."—The New York Review of Books

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Title	:	Beasts
Author	:	Joyce Carol Oates
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Trade paperback
Pages	:	Pages: 154 pages
Published	:	January 6th 2003 by Carroll & Graf Publishers (first published 2001)
Categories	:	Fiction. Horror. Gothic. Novella. Contemporary. Literary Fiction

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Ratings: 3.57 From 3271 Users | 337 Reviews

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"Don't be fearful: excavate your soul. Go deeper! You can't go deeper? Go deeper. Go for the jugular."My favourite Oates.A delicious little gothic novella about a young girl, Gillian's, decent into debauchery with her poetry teacher and, later, his artist wife who creates wonderful grotesque statues. The writing is lyrical and emotional, flowing beautifully over a rather intense plot. Slowly Gillian's drug induced sexual obsessions intensify into a blazing crescendo. Usually I loathe a period

Andre Harrow and his wife Dorcas came to Catamount College, in Massachusetts, in the mid 1960's Gillian is 20 year of age .....She was in her third year at the college... With an infatuation professor Andre Harrow. Gillian wanted to 'be good' ... "If you love a married man you exist in a special, secret, undeclared relationship with his wife."She told her self no more---she resolved not to brood upon Andre Harrow anymore...Ha!"You would wonder that I could be so emotionally inexperienced, or

Erm. The jacket made this sound a bit more like a gothic horror romance than it was. Totally false advertising. Instead, I got a tedious period piece about spoiled college students in love with their wretched abuser of a professor and his sculptress wife. I found it tedious. And more a vehicle for Ms. Oates to show her own academic prowess than a suitable vehicle for storytelling. The crux of the book only takes about 30 of the book's 138 pages; everything else merely builds up to the plot. The

I can safely say that this is the worst book I've ever read. It's so silly and stupid, and to think of the 'advance praises' on the cover...I can't put my irritation into words. I had heard good things about JCO but this was one hell of a disappointment. 'Deliciously Gothic'? Give me a break.'Suspenseful and satisfying to the end'? Such a trite and tiring plot, man. 'Slightly bizarre characters'? More like badly sketched caricatures. I hope to come across something a whole lot better by JCO

I'm a huge Joyce Carol Oates fan, so there is some inherent prejudice in my view of this book. I see that by other reviews here, it's one of those love it/hate it books. I'm always puzzled by why a book elicits such diverse reactions.With "Beasts", I think a lot has to do with the atmosphere of the novel -- an Eastern liberal arts college for women. I have no idea if it depicts this world accurately, having only attended college in a somewhat backward Montana town. This is key. If you can't

Wow...just wow!!This little book packs a punch. It is so beautifully written I could have quoted the whole book.Highly recommend!Thank you Danielle for the rec. and the loan.

...logic has nothing to do with truth, only with premises."Apparently, the WORLD did not end today.Then again, it's still early to assume.Anyways, whether the world will end today or not, I've read Beasts in no rush at all. The pages simply flew on their own accord. Quick and haunting! "In love at a distance, so much of life has to be invented. In love at a distance, you learn the strategies of indirection.