Délicieuses Pourritures
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9782290341889 (2290341886)
Publish date: October 10th 2005
Publisher: J'ai lu
Pages no: 126
Edition language: French
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Contemporary,
Americana,
Horror,
Sexuality,
Gothic
This was a short novella of JCO’s that follows college girls and their lust for a poetry professor. Simple enough plot, this was a little hard to get into at first but the ending was where Oates shined. I would recommend it, especially since it’s such a short read… however, not if it’s your first en...
This was a short novella of JCO’s that follows college girls and their lust for a poetry professor. Simple enough plot, this was a little hard to get into at first but the ending was where Oates shined. I would recommend it, especially since it’s such a short read… however, not if it’s your first en...
A well-written, at times beautiful, story of seduction, madness, death, evil and lost innocence that ultimately left me feeling ... nothing at all really.---Pg. 34 - "In love at a distance, so much has to be invented."If I'd read this a couple of years ago, I'd have collapsed into tears at that line...
I've enjoyed the few books I've read by Joyce Carol Oates. She always has some nicely dark edges to her stories and never bloats them with useless prose and description. When I first saw this one while nosing around here on someone's goodreads bookshelf the cover intrigued me and I knew I had to c...
If Beasts were a movie, it would be rated R, R for raunchy and revealing and reviling and revengeful. The story centers on a young college student who falls in love with her writing professor and his wife. The professor reads poetry from D. H. Lawrence and exhorts his students to go for the jugular,...