Middle Age
A Romance
By Joyce Carol Oates
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780060934903, 480pp.)
Publication Date: October 2002
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover
Categories: Literary
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In 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?
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the bestsellers Blonde, a finalist for the National Book Award, and The Falls, winner of the 2005 Prix Femina. She is a professor of humanities at Princeton University.
“Hilarious and mournful. [Oates’s] realism is laced with suspense, her mastery of storytelling on full display.”
-Newsweek
“A magnificent treat.… Middle Age is the work of a master in her prime.”
-San Francisco Chronicle
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