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A Bloodsmoor Romance
A Literary Fiction Novel by Joyce Carol Oates
Subgenres:
- Gothic Fiction,
- Satire,
- Historical Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Satirical gothic tales with wild sisters upending Victorian norms
- Narrators who are scandalized by rebellious women
- 19th-century settings spiked with ghosts, abductions, and famous figures
Finally returned to print in a beautiful new trade paperback edition, comes Joyce Carol Oates" lost classic: a satirical, often surreal, and beautifully plotted Gothic Romance that follows the exploits of the audacious Zinn sisters, whose 19th century pursuit of adventurous lives turns a lens on contemporary American culture.
Set in a nineteenth century similar to our own, A Bloodsmoor Romance follows the beautiful Zinn sisters, five young women who refuse—for the most part—"the obligations of Christian marriage." Full of Oates" mordant wit and breathlessly told in the Victorian style by an unnamed narrator shocked by the Zinn sisters" sexuality, impulsivity, and rude rejection of the mores of their time, A Bloodsmoor Romance is a delicious filigree of literary conventions, "a novel of manners" in the tradition of Austen, Dickens, and Alcott which Oates turns on its head.
Oates" dark romp interweaves murder and mayhem, ghosts, and abductions, substance abuse and gender identity, women"s suffrage, the American spiritualist movement, and sexual aberration, as the Zinn sisters come into contact with some of the 19th century"s greatest characters, from Mark Twain to Oscar Wilde.
A biting assessment of the American landscape and a virtuosic transformation of a literary genre, A Bloodsmoor Romance is a compelling, hilarious, and magical anti-romance—Little Women by way of Stephen King.
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