A Bloodsmoor Romance

ISBN: 0062269194

Author: Oates, Joyce Carol

Condition: New

Finally returned to print in a beautiful new trade paperback edition, comes Joyce Carol Oates lost classic: a satirical, often surreal, and beautifully plotted Gothic Romance that follows the exploits of the audacious Zinn sisters, whose 19th century pursuit of adventurous lives turns a lens on contemporary American culture.Set in a nineteenth century similar to our own, A Bloodsmoor Romance follows the beautiful Zinn sisters, five young women who refuse-for the most part-the obligations of Christian marriage.Full of Oatess mordant wit and breathlessly told in the Victorian style by an unnamed narrator shocked by the Zinn sisters sexuality, impulsivity, and rude rejection of the mores of their time, A Bloodsmoor Romance is a delicious filigree of literary conventions, a novel of manners in the tradition of Austen, Dickens, and Alcott which Oates turns on its head.Oatess dark romp interweaves murder and mayhem, ghosts, and abductions, substance abuse and gender identity, womens suffrage, the American spiritualist movement, and sexual aberration, as the Zinn sisters come into contact with some of the 19th centurys greatest characters, from Mark Twain to Oscar Wilde.A biting assessment of the American landscape and a virtuosic transformation of a literary genre, A Bloodsmoor Romance is a compelling, hilarious, and magical anti-romance-Little Women by way of Stephen King.