Volume 49, Number 2 · February 14, 2002
The Woman Who Rode Away
By Gabriele Annan
Beasts
by Joyce Carol Oates
Carroll and Graf, 138 pp., $15.95
'Lurid and melodramatic' is how D.H. Lawrence described Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher. 'Lurid and melodramatic' is the perfect description for Beasts too; but the real reason the quote is irresistible is that Joyce Carol Oates's new novella itself is so thickly studded with quotes from D.H. Lawrence. You could call it a ghoulish variation on a Lawrentian theme.
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