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1. • • “Butcher” is undoubtedly one of her most surreal and gruesome works, sparing no repulsive detail or nefarious impulse. In the end, though, the purview of the novel is larger than one might think, becoming an empathic and discerning commentary on women’s rights, the abuses of patriarchy and the servitude of the poor and disenfranchised.
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   • (One of her few diversions is running.) Now 85, Oates shows no sign of slowing down: “Butcher” is, by most accounts, her 63rd novel, and the book has the feverish energy, narrative propulsion and descriptive amplitude — sometimes to excess — of much of her earlier work.

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   • Narrated by Silas Weir’s eldest son, who has repudiated his father’s brutal legacy, Butcher is a unique blend of fiction and fact, a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche conjoined, in its startling conclusion, with unexpected romance.

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   • Butcher is a triumph of style and brio. More than being just a medical thriller, it’s closer in temperament to works of gothic body horror, from Frankenstein through to the contemporary work of Mariana Enríquez.

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   • “At the periphery of many of my poems and works of fiction, as in the corner of an eye,” she once observed in an essay, “there is often an element of the grotesque or surreal.” The title of “Butcher,” the very starkness of it, gives a clue to the lurid, bloody tale Oates has in store.

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   • The women at the asylum have their own name for him: “the Red-Handed Butcher.” Most of the action takes place within the institution, more prison-cum-zoo than hospital. The most damaged inmates are kept like beasts, in straw-lined cages; indentured servants toil for years to secure their “freedom.”

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   • The arsenal of drugs includes laudanum, foxglove, mercury, belladonna, “small quantities of arsenic” and cocaine drops. “Butcher” is told by different narrators, all of whom cast alternating lights on Weir and his God-given (or so he believes) commitment to the patients in his care.

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   May 29, 2024 · The new novel “Butcher” by Joyce Carol Oates is a reflection on women's agency over their bodies. It tells the story of Silas Aloysius Weir during his years as director of New Jersey State Asylum for Female Lunatics in the mid- to late 1880s.

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   May 21, 2024 · Narrated by Silas Weir’s eldest son, who has repudiated his father’s brutal legacy, Butcher is a unique blend of fiction and fact, a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche conjoined, in its startling conclusion, with unexpected romance.

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   May 29, 2024 · Now well into her 80s, prolific American author Joyce Carol Oates keeps cranking out the books, most recently the disturbing novel Butcher. The author of more than 50 novels, including Blonde, a fictional account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, Oates has often drawn from historical people and events. In Butcher, she pulls from the authentic ...

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   May 29, 2024 · Now well into her 80s, prolific American author Joyce Carol Oates keeps cranking out the books, most recently the disturbing novel “Butcher.”

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   Narrated by Silas Weir’s eldest son, who has repudiated his father’s brutal legacy, Butcher is a unique blend of fiction and fact, a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche conjoined, in its startling conclusion, with unexpected romance.