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Princeton, New Jersey, inizio del Ventesimo secolo: un posto elegante per gente elegante. Ma qualcosa di oscuro è in agguato, un veleno maledetto è pronto a diffondersi tra gli abitanti: vampiri e fantasmi popolano senza tregua i sogni degli innocenti. Una potente maledizione si abbatte sulle famiglie più in vista della città e le loro figlie iniziano a scomparire. A pochi passi dall'altare la più bella viene sedotta e rapita da un uomo misteriosamente affascinante - potrebbe essere un principe europeo decaduto oppure il diavolo in persona. Quando il fratello della sposa scomparsa si mette in viaggio per cercarla, il suo cammino si incrocia con quello delle più illustri personalità di Princeton: il presidente Grover Cleveland, il rettore Woodrow Wilson, ossessionato fino alla follia dalla brama di potere. E poi il giovane scrittore socialista Upton Sinclair, Jack London, Mark Twain: tutti tormentati da visioni maledette. Un grande affresco storico dell'America di inizio Novecento: gli scrittori, i politici, gli uomini più carismatici che hanno fondato il prestigio e la grandezza degli Stati Uniti, raccontati con l'ispirazione più felice.
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- Pagine: 679
- Data di uscita: 28-11-2017
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I really wish I could have observed that moment when Joyce Carol Oates was like, "You know, maybe I'll write a Gothic with demon bridegrooms that brings together Woodrow Wilson and Upton Sinclair. Something spooky that also sheds light on turn-of-the-century issues of race and class. Oh, and I'll do Leggi tutto
This book - a (pseudo) historical, supernatural, mystery horror story - is supposedly written by M.W. van Dyck, descendant of one of the most prominent families of Princeton, New Jersey. Princeton circa 1905 Claiming to have access to newly decoded journals and other materials available only to himse Leggi tutto
While I managed to get through it there were many parts that reminded me of the lonely person all retail/public service people have dealt with. The one that rambles on about things that have no relevance to the current situation, to you, or to anything important. There were many parts like this wher Leggi tutto
I’m a big fan of Joyce Carol Oates, so when I discovered she had a new book out, I was excited. I was even happier when I found that it was another volume in the gothic family saga series she started many years ago with ‘Bellefleur’, which is one of my favorite books. The 660 page length didn’t both Leggi tutto
‘The Accursed” is the latest addition to Joyce Carol Oates’s boundless body of work, and it’s spectacular — a coalescence of history, horror and social satire that whirls around for almost 700 mesmerizing pages. Oates started the novel in 1984 but set it aside to steep in its own febrile juices for Leggi tutto
The Accursed is trippy, in the best, most all-consuming sense of the word. I read it like an obsessed maniac--it's that much of a page-turner. That is to say, once you get into the unreliable narrator's pedantic/perverse voice. It took me about 60 pages to orient myself in his world and after that I Leggi tutto
Phew. What a slog this was. And how it pains me to give it only two stars, 'it was [barely] okay', as I am a huge fan of the supremely talented Joyce Carol Oates. Never afraid to experiment, The Accursed has been touted as her take on the horror genre, with Stephen King hailing it as "the first postm Leggi tutto
No matter how great a book is, I am antsy. That's one of the reasons I have a hard time with longer books, in particular this one, because it takes many pages for very little to happen. Joyce Carol Oates is somewhat intimidating to me because she has such a large body of work that I don't know where Leggi tutto
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