Cybele
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780876854259 (0876854250)
Publish date: September 7th 1979
Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
Pages no: 204
Edition language: English
Oates restrains herself in this short but intense novel, her spare and dryly ironic style proving to be an unsettling counterpoint to the increasingly overripe, unpleasant scenarios in which the "hero" wallows. the goddess Cybele may be a symbol of fecundity, but in Oates' hands, her power over men ...