Animalia Joyce Carol Oates 'A tour de force in

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Animalia Joyce Carol Oates 'A tour de force inAnimalia retraces the history of a modest peasant family through the twentieth century as they develop their small plot of land into an intensive pig farm. In an environment dominated by the omnipresence of animals, five generations endure the cataclysm of war, economic disasters, and the emergence of a brutal industrialism reflecting an ancestral tendency to violence. Only the enchanted realm of childhood that of lonore, the matriarch, and that of