The Devil's Half Acre

by Joyce Carol Oates Narrated by John McDonough

Overview

Joyce Carol Oates uses her award-winning talents to spin a masterful tale of Gothic horror for the second part of her mesmerizing trilogy. In The Devil's Half Acre, an eerie, supernatural setting and a host of eccentric characters combine to fill this spellbinding novel with tantalizing suspense. After more than a decade, the handsome amateur detective Xavier Kilgarvan has returned to Winterthurn just in time to see the fifth young woman's body carried from Devil's Half Acre. A brutal fiend has left her mutilated body in this desolate plot of land filled with hulking boulders, quicksand, and twisted trees. Can detective Kilgarvan discover the forces motivating the mysterious "Gentleman Suitor" who has lured five innocent women to their deaths? To do so, he must confront demons from the past and the superstitions that surround the Devil's Half Acre.

Editorial Reviews

MAR 97 - AudioFile

In the nineteenth century in America people spoke differently. Oates employs this archaic style in her construction of a page-turning mystery thriller, the second of three sections in the novel titled THE MYSTERIES OF WINTERTHURN, all starring detective-hero Xavier Kilgarvan. It would have been easy to overplay the romantic drama, producing laughable effects. Fortunately, John McDonough honors the book’s point of view of earnest and accurate reportage. Drawing upon Oates’s profuse italics and precise punctuation, McDonough professionally follows the text as written. This literary reading is just what the book calls for. With his clear, resonant voice, McDonough helps us enter Oates’s backward-looking world. P.W. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170876129
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	10/22/2010
Series:	Mysteries of Winterthurn
Edition description:	Unabridged

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