Cybele

By Joyce Carol Oates

Subjects: Middle-aged men, Middle-aged men in fiction, Adultery, Fiction, general, Fiction, Adultery in fiction

Description: "In this mordant allegory about deluded obsession, Joyce Carol Oates has transformed the earth goddess Cybele into a goddess of degenerative possession. Edwin Locke, a charming forty-year-old who has never quite found himself, falls easily into his first extramarital affair. When the novelty wanes he seeks to revive his passion with others, submerging himself in a series of increasingly grotesque liaisons"--Cover.