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A major historical book from "one of the fantastic artistic forces in our time" (The Region) - an eerie, memorable story of possession, power, and damage in early on-20th-century Princeton, a cultural crossroads of the powerful and the damned. Princeton, New Jersey, at the convert of the 20th hundred years: a tranquil place to raise a family, a genteel town for genteel souls. But something dark and dangerous lurks at the edges of the city, corrupting and infecting its residents. Vampires and spirits haunt the dreams of the innocent. A robust curse besets the top notch families of Princeton; their daughters start disappearing. A bride on the verge of the altar is seduced and abducted by way of a dangerously powerful man - a shape-shifting, vaguely Western prince who could just be the devil, and who spreads his curse upon a richly deserving community of white Anglo-Saxon privilege. And in the Pine Barrens that border the city, a lush and terrifying underworld starts up. When the bride's brother pieces out against all possibilities to find her, his way will cross those of Princeton's most formidable people, from Grover Cleveland, fresh out of his second term in the White House and retired to town for a quieter life, to soon-to-be commander in key Woodrow Wilson, leader of the university or college and a complex individual obsessed to the point of madness along with his need to retain electricity; from the young Socialist idealist Upton Sinclair to his charismatic comrade Jack London, and the most well-known writer of the era, Samuel Clemens/Draw Twain - all plagued by "accursed" visions. An utterly fresh work from Oates, The Accursed marks new place for the masterful writer. Narrated with her unmistakable subconscious insight, it combines superbly transporting historical aspect with chilling supernatural elements to stunning effect.
