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A Fair Maiden
A Fair Maiden | Joyce Carol Oates
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An Otto Penzler Book Sixteen-year-old Katya Spivak is walking with her two summer babysitting charges in Bayhead Harbor, New Jersey, when she’s approached by silver-haired courtly Marcus Kidder—a local resident of some renown. At first his interest in Katya seems innocent, even as Katya’s interest in him seems precociously manipulative. His lovely oceanside home, the children’s books he has written, his classical music, and his lavish presents to her—Mr. Kidder’s life contrasts starkly with Katya’s working-class—and marginally criminal—family background. By almost imperceptible degrees, the relationship between Katya and the gentlemanly Marcus Kidder changes, and posing for him isn’t the romantic endeavor it had seemed. What does this mysterious rich man really want from Katya, who is young enough to be his granddaughter? And what will he risk to get it? In the tradition of Oates’s classic novella Beasts, A Fair Maiden is an unsettling, ambiguous tale of mounting suspense and gradually unfolding horror.
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azulaco
A Fair Maiden | Joyce Carol Oates
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This one didn't hold my interest enough for me to finish it before my library e-book loan expired. It's short, though, so perhaps I'll get around to renewing it and finishing it in March. It would work for a couple of reading challenges I'm doing.

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Bookzombie
A Fair Maiden | Joyce Carol Oates
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This is my second book by JCO. I liked the previous book I read but I just couldn't get into this one. It's only 165 pages, but I just wanted to pick up something else. #dnf

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