Middle Age: A Romance by Joyce Carol OatesMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This was a challenging read. What is it about? Who is Adam Berendt? Why does his early exit resonate with so many people? What's up with the Aristotle / Odin symbolism? Doesn't matter. Watching his life reorient so many other people's lives in their middle age is the story. Some fly right, some fly wrong. Joyce Carol Oates singular, dispassionate voice is so perfect for this story, or vice versa. It's like the people in John Updike's _Couples_ were reassembled twenty years later, in this book, but illustrated with a very different light. Worth a read.
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