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- Wonderfully written at the level of sentence, paragraph, and overall structure, it has been praised by the likes of bestselling horror and fantasy author Stephen King as well as more traditional literary critics. This ability to bridge the gap between readerly communities should bring The Accursed the attention it so richly deserves.
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Mar 14, 2013 · In Joyce Carol Oates’s new novel, a curse infects Princeton, N.J., beginning in 1905 when a new bride is abducted by a demon in front of a church congregation.
Jul 1, 2014 · One of the many joys of The Accursed is Oates’s expert satirizing and skewering of the community of Princeton, both the city and the university, and her unrelenting depiction of the flaws of major historical and literary personages.
Mar 5, 2013 · Joyce Carol Oates. 3.23. 6,152 ratings1,211 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best Horror (2013) This eerie tale of psychological horror sees the real inhabitants of turn-of-the-century Princeton fall under the influence of a supernatural power.
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Mar 5, 2013 · The Accursed follows the story of a young bride, Annabel Slade, who disappears from her own wedding ceremony under mysterious circumstances: Some say she was abducted by a handsome newcomer to...
Mar 15, 2013 · That’s because, despite its seemingly genteel cast of characters, The Accursed is no Jane Austen novel. It’s pure Joyce Carol Oates — dark, disturbing and then some. Oates began this book...
Mar 5, 2013 · Hannah’s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II. In 1995, an elderly unnamed widow is moving into an Oregon nursing home on the urging of her controlling son, Julien, a surgeon.
A count from Wallachia, murders, children turned to stone, a plague of serpents – Princeton’s inhabitants are accursed. But why? This book is at once thematically complex and salaciously thrilling, brilliantly literary and creepily Gothic. It’s also pervasively metaphorical.
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