Beasts (novella)

Beasts (novella)

infobox Book |
name = Beasts


author = Joyce Carol Oates
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Novella
publisher = Carroll & Graf Publishers
release_date = January 2002
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 138 pp
isbn = ISBN 9780786708963

"Beasts" is a novella by Joyce Carol Oates and was originally published in 2002.

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.

Knowing that other girls preceded her does not deter Gillian from being drawn into the decadent world of Professor Harrow and his wife, Dorcas, the outrageous sculptress of primal totems. Gillian soon tumbles into a nightmare of carnal desire and corrupted sexual innocence.

A modern suspenseful fable on the power of obsession and the abuse of power, Beasts is a heady blend of art and arson, poetry and pornography, totems and taboos.


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