At the B&N Reads blog
Jeff Somers tagged seven novels that show us how dangerous a college campus can be, including:
The Accursed, by Joyce Carol Oates
Set in Princeton in the early 20th century, when Woodrow Wilson was president of the university, Oates’ meticulously structured novel follows the misfortunes of the school’s elite families after a real, honest-to-God curse is activated against them. What follows should be a mess: it involves vampires and ghosts, angels and demons, alternate universes and extremely horrifying violence. But it does work, because Oates has planned the story so very well. You might think attending Princeton would be a great start to a successful life, but Oates makes the case that being anywhere near this Ivy League institution might result in madness, death—or worse.
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the other entries on the list.
The Accursed is among
Gabe Habash's nine top art-and-book-cover matches.
--Marshal Zeringue
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