Maybe it was because I saw Joyce Carol Oates read from a work in progress once that I have had a fascination with her books since graduate school back in the mid-eighties, but whatever the reason, I have read many of her books and stories. With such a prolific author as Oates, that’s quite a few books! This one, a novel, as the blurb on the back cover proclaims, is “taut and fascinating.” It deals with the mysteries of the human mind and the human personality. It is an unusual, perhaps unique love story.
The novel is set between 1965 and 1996, all years in which I was an adult, so I had a perspective of living through the years the story was set in. To me, one of the most interesting facets of the novel was its attempt to show personal obsession as a reality. Themes such as loneliness…
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