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The
2003 Award
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Middle Age by Joyce Carol Oates
Nominated by:
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Publisher of Nominated Edition: HarperCollins ISBN 0066209463 |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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Salthill-on-Hudson, a half-hour train ride from Manhattan, everyone is rich,
beautiful, and - though they look much younger - middle-aged. But when Adam
Berendt, a charismatic, mysterious sculptor, dies suddenly in a brash act
of heroism, shock waves rock the town. But who was Adam Berendt? Was he in fact a hero, or someone more flawed and human? His loss and the rumours that surface of his possible lovers plunge his friends into grief, confusion and self-reflection. The women who loved Adam find themselves engaging in life-altering romantic adventures. The men who were Adam's closest friends become utterly transformed in his absence. Adam's lawyer, Roger Cavanagh, who has broken the law for Adam's sake, becomes involved with an elusive and perhaps treacherous young woman. Marina Troy exiles herself to fulfill a wish Adam had made for her. Lionel Hoffmann sets out, unwisely but with great hope, to recapture his lost youth after a lifetime of soulless financial success, even as his wife, Camille, discovers an unspeakable joy close to home. Agusta Cutler, a hitherto sensuous, unreflective woman, defiantly endeavours to solve the mystery of Adam's origins, even if it means losing her marriage and family. Middle Age is a comic portrait of the affluent class at the dawn of the twenty-first century, a uniquely American saga of self-determination and identity. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written numerous novels, including Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2002, short story collections, poetry, plays and essays. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member, since 1978, of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. |
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