Cover of Middle Age

Middle Age

A Romance

by Joyce Carol Oates

Publication: First published 2001
ISBNs: 9780060934903, 9781841156415, 9780736680080

Women’s Prize 2002 · Longlist

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E-book extra: "Enchanted Places," an essay by Joyce Carol Oates.In Salthill-on-Hudson, a half-hour train ride from Manhattan, everyone is rich, beautiful, and -- though they look much younger -- middle-aged. When a charismatic, mysterious sculptor dies suddenly in a brash act of heroism, shock waves rock the town.

Prize history

Orange Prize for Fiction
2002

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