Middle Age: A Romance
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Special feature: This PerfectBound e-book contains "Enchanted Places," Joyce Carol Oates's essay about the rooms we live in - especially selected for the e-book by the author. A darkly comic novel from the author of BLONDE and WE WERE THE MULVANEYS.Book Magazine"You leave home one afternoon, you never return as yourself," thinks a recently deceased man in the opening pages of Oates' immaculately plotted and emotionally resonant novel. The dead man is sculptor Adam Berendt (or is he really?), and the grieving community is the determinedly middle-aged Salthill-on-Hudson. The novel itself is both a good old-fashioned mystery and an inquiry into questions about identity and love, about who we become when one among us disappears. No one, it seems, ever really knew Adam, though that never stopped people from believing that he was their best friend or destined to be their lover. No one could name just why they loved him, but they did. No one is prepared for the marriages and dreams that crumble in his absence; for the tricks that memory plays; or for the revelations, both sudden and quiet, that ultimately lead Oates' cast toward more satisfying, honest, even dignified lives. There is light, a lot of it, at the end of this long book. —Beth Kephart
Prologue: Fourth of July1Part 1If You Catch Me ...Survived by ...15Old Mill Way: The Cave61The Madonna of the Rocks102The Game136Farewell!180Part 2... And I Don't Escape YouThe Fell of Dark193Old Mill Way: The Transformation238The Girl in the Red Beret294Deardeaddad343The Missing395Part 3Ever AfterDream Creatures431Old Mill Way: The Attack439The Ballet447The Lovers, by Night454The Homecoming457
