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Finally returned to print in a beautiful new trade paperback edition comes Joyce Carol Oates’ lost classic: a satirical often surreal and beautifully plotted Gothic Romance that follows the exploits of the audacious Zinn sisters whose 19th century pursuit of adventurous lives turns a lens on contemporary American culture.Set in a nineteenth century similar to our own A Bloodsmoor Romance follows the beautiful Zinn sisters five young women who refuse—for the most part—”the obligations of Christian marriage.” Full of Oates’s mordant wit and breathlessly told in the Victorian style by an unnamed narrator shocked by the Zinn sisters’ sexuality impulsivity and rude rejection of the mores of their time A Bloodsmoor Romance is a delicious filigree of literary conventions “a novel of manners” in the tradition of Austen Dickens and Alcott which Oates turns on its head. Oates’s dark romp interweaves murder and mayhem ghosts and abductions substance abuse and gender identity women’s suffrage the American spiritualist movement and sexual aberration as the Zinn sisters come into contact with some of the 19th century’s greatest characters from Mark Twain to Oscar Wilde.A biting assessment of the American landscape and a virtuosic transformation of a literary genre A Bloodsmoor Romance is a compelling hilarious and magical anti-romance—Little Women by way of Stephen King.