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November 2, 2001
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Byline: MICHAEL ARDITTI

MIDDLE AGE by Joyce Carol Oates (4th Estate, [pound]10.99) WHEN sculptor Adam Berendt dies in the course of trying to save a drowning girl, he leaves behind him a considerable mystery, a substantial fortune and a large number of mourners, particularly among the middle-aged female residents of the exclusive New York suburb of Salthill-on-Hudson. Adam's origins are as obscure - in both senses - as those of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby and he has attained a similarly mythic status among his circle of friends.

Middle Age, the latest offering from the amazingly prolific American novelist, Joyce Carol Oates, explores the ...

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