| Edition |
1st trade ed. |
| Description |
558 pages, [2] leaves of plates : genealogical table ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"A Henry Robbins book." |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
Mahalaleel. The arrival of Mahalaleel ; The pond ; The Bellefleur curse ; The pregnancy ; Jedediah ; "Powers" ; The river ; Great horned owl ; The uncanny premonition out of the Womb ; Horses ; The whirlwind ; Nocturne -- The walled garden. The vial of poison ; The vision ; The spider, love ; The nameless child ; The walled garden ; Bloody run ; The poet ; Paie-des-Sables ; The holy mountain ; In the nursery ; The hound ; The room of contamination ; Tirpitz ; The birthday celebration -- In the mountains. In motion ; Haunted things ; Cassandra ; "The innisfail butcher" ; The elopement ; Great-Grandmother Elvira's hundredth birthday celebration ; In the mountains, in those days ; Fateful mismatches ; The tutor ; Passion ; Another carriage ; The noir vulture ; Kincardine Christ ; Reflections ; The wicked son ; The mud-devourers -- Once upon a time. Celestial timepiece ; Nightsahde ; Automobiles ; The demon ; The death of Stanton Pym ; Solitaire ; The bloodstone ; The proposal ; The mirror ; Once upon a time ; Mount Ellesmere ; The jaws devour ; The strike ; The harvest -- Revenge. The clavichord ; God's face ; The autumn pond ; The rats ; The spirit of Lake Noir ; Query ; Air ; The joyful wedding ; The skin-drum ; The traitorous child ; The vanished pond ; The purple orchid ; Revenge ; Unknown to Gideon ; The jaws ; The assassination of the Sheriff of Nautauga County ; The brood of night ; Brown Lucy ; The broken promise ; A still water ; The destruction of Bellefleur Manor ; The angel. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.
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French Americans -- Fiction.
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Rich people -- Fiction.
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New York (State) -- Fiction.
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Eccentrics and eccentricities. (OCoLC)fst00901271
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French Americans. (OCoLC)fst00934236
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Rich people. (OCoLC)fst01097537
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New York (State) (OCoLC)fst01210280
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Family relationships -- Fiction.
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Rich families -- Fiction.
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Revenge -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
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Domestic fiction, American. (OCoLC)fst01750164
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Domestic fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Historical fiction, American.
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Domestic fiction, American.
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Domestic fiction.
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Family sagas, American.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- Bellefleur. 1st trade ed. New York : E.P. Dutton, ©1980 (OCoLC)564740294 |
| ISBN |
0525063021 |
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9780525063025 |
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