Middle Age: A Romance

"A stylish and wise chronicle of transformation and regeneration."  -  Sunday Telegraph

In Salthill-On-Hudson, a half-hour train ride from Manhattan, everyone is rich, beautiful, and - though they look much younger - Middle Age. But when Adam Berendt, a charismatic, mysterious sculptor, dies suddenly in a brash act of heroism, shock waves rock the town. But who was Adam Berendt? Was he in fact a hero, or someone more flawed and human? His loss and the rumours that surface of his possible lovers, plunge his friends into grief, confusion, and self-reflection. 

"Oates is a massive literary heavyweight, and many earnestly believe she could knock the other contenders for the title of Great American Novelist – Updike, Roth, Wolfe, Mailer."  -  The Guardian UK

Middle Age: A Romance is an intimately drawn, richly sympathetic, yet unsparingly comic portrait of the affluent class at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Incisive, insightful, and never predictable, it's a uniquely American sage of self-determination and identity from one of our finest writers of contemporary fiction.