Middle Age: a romanceA tender, hilarious novel about contemporary America. With Middle Age Joyce Carol Oates has been acclaimed as one of the most important writers of her time. Salthill on Hudson is half an hour outside New York, a place where the inhabitants are beautiful, rich and, though they look younger than they really are, middle aged. When the enigmatic sculptor Adam Berendt dies suddenly, his death sends shock waves through the town. His loss and rumours of