- Middle age, Fiction, Love stories, Middle aged persons
E-book extra: "Enchanted Places," an essay by Joyce Carol Oates.In Salthill-on-Hudson, a half-hour train ride from Manhattan, everyone is rich, beautiful, and -- though they look much younger -- middle-aged. When a charismatic, mysterious sculptor dies suddenly in a brash act of heroism, shock waves rock the town.
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Contemporary, grave, classical in form and prestige.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Joyce Carol Oates
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 472
- Publisher
- Books On Tape, Ecco Press, Ecco
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060934903
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