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Title: Recommended reading
Review: I recommend this short, atmospheric novella. It belongs to what must be a genre: Perversion on Campus. Harkening back to a pre-PC era where predators subtly seduced young, nubile women in a New England campus (Mt Holyoke, no doubt), the plot consists of a disjointed flashback into a post-60s environment very different from our own, when the advocacy of sensual liberation is regarded much less suspiciously than it would today.One particularly effective device is the scrambled ordering of plot events, which is masterful. In fact, the narrative sequencing of events has to be a kind of exemplar for other novelists. Some would say Oates style is overwrought, but if you accept Beasts as a genre novel, then it can be better accepted as highly accomplished and often memorable.So keep in mind the limitations within which Oates works and enjoy!
