Bellefleur

Bellefleur  

1st edition cover
Author(s) Joyce Carol Oates
Country United States
Publisher E.P. Dutton
Publication date 1980
Pages 558
ISBN 0-525-06302-1 (first edition)
OCLC Number 5831446
Dewey Decimal 813/.54
LC Classification PS3565.A8 B44
Preceded by Unholy Loves
Followed by Angel of Light

Bellefleur is a magic realist novel by Joyce Carol Oates about the generations of an upstate New York family. It is the first book in Oates' "Gothic Saga".

The Wonderland Quartet
A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967)  • Expensive People (1968)  • them (1969)  • Wonderland (1971)
The Gothic Saga
Bellefleur (1980)  • A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982)  • Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984)  • My Heart Laid Bare (1998)  • The Crosswicks Horror (Forthcoming)
Other novels
With Shuddering Fall (1964)  • Do with Me What You Will (1973)  • The Assassins: A Book of Hours (1975)  • Childwold (1976)  • Son of the Morning (1978)  • Cybele (1979)  • Unholy Loves (1979)  • Angel of Light (1981)  • Solstice (1985)  • Marya: A Life (1986)  • You Must Remember This (1987)  • American Appetites (1989)  • Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart (1990)  • Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (1993)  • What I Lived For (1994)  • Zombie (1995)  • We Were the Mulvaneys (1996)  • Man Crazy (1997)  • Broke Heart Blues (1999)  • Blonde (2000)  • Middle Age: A Romance (2001)  • I'll Take You There (2002)  • The Tattooed Girl (2003)  • The Falls (2004)  • Missing Mom (2005)  • Black Girl / White Girl (2006)  • The Gravedigger's Daughter (2007)  • My Sister, My Love (2008)  • Little Bird of Heaven (2009)  • A Fair Maiden (2010)
As "Rosamond Smith"
Lives of the Twins (1987)  • Soul/Mate (1989)  • Nemesis (1990)  • Snake Eyes (1992)  • You Can't Catch Me (1995)  • Double Delight (1997)  • Starr Bright Will Be With you Soon (1999)  • The Barrens (2001)
As "Lauren Kelly"
Take Me, Take Me With You (2003)  • The Stolen Heart (2005)  • Blood Mask (2006)
Novellas
The Triumph of the Spider Monkey (1976)  • I Lock My Door Upon Myself (1990)  • The Rise of Life on Earth (1991)  • Black Water (1992)  • First Love: A Gothic Tale (1996)  • Beasts (2001)  • Rape: A Love Story (2003)  • The Corn Maiden: A Love Story (2005)
Young adult fiction