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Travel through a "dark, chaotic, unfathomable pool of time" with JOYCE CAROL OATES as she explores the Bellefleur curse. Your journey begins one dark and stormy night when Mahalaleel arrives at the 64-room castle and everything begins to happen to:
Leah -- tall, beautiful and possessed of "powers"
Gideon -- her husband, passionately enthralled by her
Bromwell -- her prodigy son
Germaine -- the daughter she is soon to bear -- the child with a mysterious "awareness" of her own.
A wealthy and notorious clan, the Bellefleurs live in a region not unlike the Adirondacks, in an enormous mansion on the shores of mythic Lake Noir. They own vast lands and profitable businesses, they employ their neighbors, and they influence the government. A prolific and eccentric group, they include several millionaires, a mass murderer, a spiritual seeker who climbs into the mountains looking for God, a wealthy noctambulist who dies of a chicken scratch.
Bellefleur traces the lives of several generations of this unusual family. At its center is Gideon Bellefleur and his imperious, somewhat psychic, very beautiful wife, Leah, their three children (one with frightening psychic abilities), and the servants and relatives, living and dead, who inhabit the mansion and its environs. Their story offers a profound look at the world's changeableness, time and eternity, space and soul, pride and physicality versus love. Bellefleur is an allegory of caritas versus cupiditas, love and selflessness versus pride and selfishness. It is a novel of change, baffling complexity, mystery.
*Written with a voluptuousness and startling immediacy that transcends Joyce Carol Oates's early works, Bellefleur is widely regarded as a masterwork—a feat of literary genius.--goodreads
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Fiction, Love, Selfishness, Pride, Family, Generations, Living, Dead, Children, Millionaires, Money, Riches, Rich, Wealthy, Mansion, Manor, Castle, Servants, Company, Business, Complex, Mystery, Eccentrics, Eccentricities, Time, Eternity, Psychic, Abilities, Rich people, Eccentrics and eccentricities, French Americans, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, historical, general, New york (n.y.), fiction, Adirondack mountains (n.y.), fiction, FamiliesPeople
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Bellefleur: The National Bestseller
September 1981, Warner Books: A Warner Communications Co., this ed. publ. by arrngmt w/Elseier-Dutton Publ. Co.
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- First WB Printing ed. Sep '1981
0446969249 9780446969246
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Originally published, New York , Dutton, 1980.
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