A wealthy and notorious clan, the Bellefleurs live in a region not unlike the Adirondacks, in an enormous mansion on the shores of mythic Lake Noir. They own vast lands and profitable businesses, they employ their neighbors, and they influence the government. A prolific and eccentric group, they include several millionaires, a mass murderer, a spiritual seeker who climbs into the mountains looking for God, a wealthy noctambulist who dies of a chicken scratch. Bellefleur traces the lives of several generations of this unusual family. At its center is Gideon Bellefleur and his imperious, somewhat psychic, very beautiful wife, Leah, their three children (one with frightening psychic abilities), and the servants and relatives, living and dead, who inhabit the mansion and its environs. Their story offers a profound look at the world's changeableness, time and eternity, space and soul, pride and physicality versus love. Bellefleur is an allegory of caritas versus cupiditas, love and selflessness versus pride and selfishness. It is a novel of change, baffling complexity, mystery. Written with a voluptuousness and startling immediacy that transcends Joyce Carol Oates's early works, Bellefleur is widely regarded as a masterwork—a feat of literary genius.
La Saga Gótica Serie
Esta saga se adentra en los rincones sombríos de la psique humana y el reino sobrenatural, explorando el misterio, el horror y el romance. Cada entrega ofrece personajes y escenarios únicos, unidos por una atmósfera gótica general. Los lectores que disfrutan de relatos escalofriantes y suspense encontrarán satisfacción en estas historias distintas pero temáticamente vinculadas. La colección promete un viaje inmersivo a lo oscuro y arcano.
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