Bellefleur (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Joyce Carol Oates
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Gothic
- Time of Work: Mid-sixteenth to late twentieth centuries
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Family or family life, Suicide, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Violence, Eighteenth century, Seventeenth century, Fantasy, Sixteenth century, Bombs
- Locales: Adirondacks, NY
Places Discussed
Bellefleur Manor. Ancestral home of the Bellefleurs, a large American clan whose roots go back to the American Revolution. The family mansion sits on the shores of mythic Lake Noir near the Canadian border, a region similar to the Adirondack Mountains of New York State. Over the years, the family gains control over a vast part of the region. As its wealth and influence grow, it advertises its power by building the manor as a grand castle. However, the great structure is both castle and prison, for it binds all the Bellefleurs—living and dead, past and...
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