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Joyce Carol Oates: The Accursed
Set on the Princeton campus in 1905, a penetrating social commentary masquerades as a classic American Gothic.
By Michael Silverblatt • • 28m ListenJoyce Carol Oates says the first scary book she read was Alice in Wonderland. This is apt, because her current novel transports readers into a fearsome world where the realms of the human and the nightmare overlap. Set on the Princeton campus in 1905,
The Accursed (ECCO) is a penetrating social commentary masquerading as a classic American Gothic. Oates talks about this tale of consciousness, repression, and American high society's unspeakable demons.
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