Joyce Carol Oates began this novel in the 1980s but put it aside for 30 years before going back to complete it.
Joyce Carol Oates began this novel in the 1980s but put it aside for 30 years before going back to complete it.
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The AccuRsed by Joyce Carol Oates Fourth Estate, £18.99 Reviewed by Shirley Whiteside
Set in Princeton during 1905 and 1906, this is a vast, Gothic-inspired work that combines real people – US presidents Woodrow Wilson and Grover Cleveland as well as writers Jack London, Mark Twain and Upton Sinclair – with the kind of upper-class characters who might have stepped out of an Edith Wharton novel.
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