Ecco Sep 2001, hc $28.00

Middle Age: a Romance
by Joyce Carol Oates

The death of an enigmatic member of an affluent community sets forth the events of Middle Age. His wealthy, beautiful, middle-aged neighbors try to make sense of his death and are confounded by his life and are the stage for Joyce Carol Oates' sharp, brilliant portraits.

Middle Age: a Romance is an intimately drawn, richly sympathetic, yet unsparingly comic portrait of the affluent class at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Incisive, insightful, and never predictable, it's a uniquely American sage of self-determination and identity from one of our finest writers of contemporary fiction.