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| Plot Summary of Beasts |
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"Gillian is a senior at a small New England collge. She is infatuated with her professor, Andre Harrow, and even though she knows that he has a history of becoming involved with his female students she works her way into his life and becomes facinated by his anti-establishment ideas, his artist wife, Dorcas, and the Bohemian lifestyle that they enjoy. Gillian embarks on an affair with both Andre and Dorcas, and she enters their strange, manipulative world of sexual games and power struggles. They seem to be predators and she becomes their prey. Meanwhile, someone has been setting fires all over the college campus. Gillian feels a connection to these crimes that she can't explain. As her relationship with the Harrows intensifies it becomes unclear who is actually preying on whom. "
fran laniado, Resident Scholar
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| Review Analysis of Beasts |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- thoughtful
Time/era of story
- 1960's-1970's
Romance/Romance Problems
Yes
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- really kinky sex!!!!
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Age group of kid(s) in story:
- college
Taboo sex story?
Yes
Main Character
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- 20's-30's
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 3 (some)
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- lesbians!
- actual description of hetero sex
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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