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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-     Subjects     Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.     French Americans -- Fiction.     Rich people -- Fiction.     New York (State) -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-       by title:      Bellefleur / Joyce C...       by call number:      FICTION OAT     Search the Web     Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-     Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.     French Americans -- Fiction.     Rich people -- Fiction.     New York (State) -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Bellefleur / Joyce Carol Oates. by Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Ecco , an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2013. Call #: FICTION OAT Subjects Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.   French Americans -- Fiction.   Rich people -- Fiction.   New York (State) -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780062269164 (trade pbk) Edition:  1st Ecco paperback ed. Description:  733 p. : genealogical table ; 20 cm. Notes:  First published in hardcover in 1980 by Dutton Books. Summary:  "A 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)."--Publisher. Genre:  Historical fiction. Gothic fiction. Domestic fiction. Magic realism (Literature) Family saga. Literary fiction. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION OAT Adult Trade Paperback Books Transit Request Add Copy to MyList

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