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BeastsJoyce Carol Oates

Beasts

138 pagesFirst published 20025 editions
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"A bright, talented junior at Catamount College in the druggy 1970s, Gillian Brauer strives to realize more than a poet's craft in her workshop with the charismatic, anti-establishment professor Andre Harrow. For Gillian has fallen in love - with Harrow, with his aesthetic sensibility and bohemian lifestyle, with his secluded cottage on Brierly Lane, with the mystique of his imposing, russet-haired French wife, Dorcas. A sculptress, Dorcas has outraged the campus and alumnae with the crude, primitive, larger than life-sized wooden totems that she has exhibited under the motto "We are Beasts…

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Editions

5 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2004
    Orion mass market paperback · 138 pages · 9780752858937
  • Hardcover · English · 2003
    Orion · 144 pages · 9780752855929
  • Hardcover · English · 2002
    Carroll & Graf · 138 pages · 9780786708963
  • Paperback · English · 2002
    Beasts (Otto Penzler Books)
    Carroll & Graf · 160 pages · 9780786711031
  • Other · English · 2004
    Thorndike Press · 9780786262670
College studentsFictionCollege teachersCollege teachers' spousesWomen college studentsHusband and wifeErotic sculpturePsychological fiction