Black Oxen

Black Oxen unites such unlikely topics as medical rejuvenation treatments, eugenics, American youth culture, and cross—generational relationships. The beautiful American widow of a Hungarian count, Mary Zattiany is fifty—eight years old; after receiving experimental “rejuvenation treatments” and returning to America, however, she is mistaken for a woman in her twenties, and falls in love with a much younger man. Set in an era fixated on youth, beauty, and pleasure, but focusing on the exper...