Title : The Mysteries of Winterthurn - Joyce Carol Oates - Book
Summary :
How far will a woman in love go to call her runaway fiancé back to her? How far does love lead? To what heights of cruelty, perversity, and seduction? This is the central theme of The Mysteries of Winterthurn .
At the end of the 19th century, at the Glen Mawr manor, located in the town of Winterthurn in the eastern United States, lives the strange Kilgarvan family, composed of three daughters: Georgina, the eldest, known as "The Blue Nun," and her two half-sisters whom she raises alone, the wise and studious Thérèse and the pretty, whimsical and perverse Perdita. At dawn one May day, the Blue Nun mysteriously goes to town to buy fifty pounds of quicklime. Shortly after, the baby of her cousin Abigail, who came to visit for a few days, is found with her throat cut near her mother's bed. The truth about this atrocious murder would undoubtedly have been better left undiscovered.
Twelve years later, five young girls are found dead, horribly mutilated, near Winterthurn. And, twelve years after that, it is the pastor, his mother, and one of his parishioners who are brutally murdered with axes. Each time, the key to these horrific mysteries will be the same, as we can well guess: how far does a woman in love dare to go?
Joyce Carol Oates knows how to describe the darkest depths of human beings like no one else. She also knows how to touch our imagination in its most secret shadowy areas. She relentlessly denounces the taboos and prohibitions of this rigid turn-of-the-century society.
The Mysteries of Winterthurn is a rich, vibrant, strange and sumptuous book, where the diabolical sometimes borders on the comic in the purest tradition of the crime novel. We find all the talent, all the accents of the author of Bellefleur and The Legend of Bloodsmoor .
Joyce Carol Oates is arguably the most gifted and prolific young American novelist of today. Translated worldwide, she has published thirteen novels or collections of short stories in France, all with Editions Stock. The most recent include Bellefleur (1981), Profane Love (1982), A Sentimental Education (1983), The Legend of Bloodsmoor (1985), and The Man Women Adored (1986).
- EAN: 9782234019966
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