Bellefleur (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
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
- Setting: Upstate New York
- Principal Characters: Jean Pierre Bellefleur, Louis, Raphael, Gideon, Leah, Germaine
- 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
The Story:
Jean Pierre Bellefleur, banished from his native France and cast out by his father, a duke, settled in the Lake Noir region of the United States in the mid-1700’s and became a powerful force in the area. Notorious for his drinking, gambling, and shady business deals, Jean Pierre was impeached from Congress during his second term for scandal and corruption. When his wife, Hilda, fled his house, to the neighbors’ horror, he brought an Onondagan Indian woman, Antoinette, to live with him.
His son Louis married Germaine O’Hagan, a local woman, and had three...
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