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Author: Oates, Joyce Carol Title: Bellefleur Cover: Hardcover Dutton Books, New York, NY Date: 1980 Edition: First Trade Edition stated Size: Small 4to - 9" to 11" tall Pages: 558 Book: Good DJ: Good Topic: Novel Notes: DJ has small taped tears with lightly rubbed edges.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100525063021
ISBN-139780525063025
eBay Product ID (ePID)1207347
Product Key Features
Book TitleBellefleur
Number of Pages558 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, Literary, Historical
Publication Year1980
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight320.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN79-028193
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisA wealthy and notorious clan, the Bellefleurs live in a region not unlike the Adirondacks, in an enormous mansion on the shores of mythic Lake Noir. They own vast lands and profitable businesses, they employ their neighbors, and they influence the government. A prolific and eccentric group, they include several millionaires, a mass murderer, a spiritual seeker who climbs into the mountains looking for God, a wealthy noctambulist who dies of a chicken scratch. Bellefleur traces the lives of several generations of this unusual family. At its center is Gideon Bellefleur and his imperious, somewhat psychic, very beautiful wife, Leah, their three children (one with frightening psychic abilities), and the servants and relatives, living and dead, who inhabit the mansion and its environs. Their story offers a profound look at the world's changeableness, time and eternity, space and soul, pride and physicality versus love. Bellefleur is an allegory of caritas versus cupiditas, love and selflessness versus pride and selfishness. It is a novel of change, baffling complexity, mystery. Written with a voluptuousness and startling immediacy that transcends Joyce Carol Oates's early works, Bellefleur is widely regarded as a masterwork--a feat of literary genius that forces us "to ask again how anyone can possibly write such books, such absolutely convincing scenes, rousing in us, again and again, the familiar Oates effect, the point of all her art: joyful terror gradually ebbing toward wonder" (John Gardner).
LC Classification NumberPS3565.A8B44
