Oates, Joyce Carol.

Angel Of Light.

Uncorrected Page Proof Copy. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1981. 13.5 x 21.5cm. (13), 440 pages. Original softcover in protective sleeve. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

Angel of Light is a Washington, D.C. retelling of Aeschylus’ Oresteia which tries to hook up the themes of personal betrayal and revenge with the politics of treason and terrorism. Maurice Halleck, Director of the (imaginary) Federal Commission for the Ministry of Justice, is dead in an apparent car-crash suicide following a bribery scandal (connected to investigations into the Allende affair). But Maurice’s high-strung teenage daughter Kirsten is convinced that her father was murdered—for domestic and perhaps political reasons—by chic mother Isabel and her lover Nicholas Martens, Maurie’s old pal and colleague at the Commission. So, fixed on a double revenge-killing, Kirsten/Electra hysterically demands active support from low-key older brother Owen. [From Kirkus Reviews]

• Keywords: 20th century · American Authors · American Literature · Fiction · Literature · Novel
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780525054832
• Inventory Number: 91228AB

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