

The Accursed
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Narrator: Grover Gardner
Unabridged: 42 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 03/05/2013
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Horror
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Narrator: Grover Gardner
Unabridged: 42 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 03/05/2013
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Horror
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
I really wish I could have observed that moment when Joyce Carol Oates was like, "You know, maybe I'll write a Gothic with demon bridegrooms that brings together Woodrow Wilson and Upton Sinclair. Something spooky that also sheds light on turn-of-the-century issues of race and class. Oh, and I'll do......more
This book - a (pseudo) historical, supernatural, mystery horror story - is supposedly written by M.W. van Dyck, descendant of one of the most prominent families of Princeton, New Jersey. Princeton circa 1905 Claiming to have access to newly decoded journals and other materials available only to himse......more
While I managed to get through it there were many parts that reminded me of the lonely person all retail/public service people have dealt with. The one that rambles on about things that have no relevance to the current situation, to you, or to anything important. There were many parts like this wher......more
I’m a big fan of Joyce Carol Oates, so when I discovered she had a new book out, I was excited. I was even happier when I found that it was another volume in the gothic family saga series she started many years ago with ‘Bellefleur’, which is one of my favorite books. The 660 page length didn’t both......more