Them
of Joyce Carol Oates, Elaine Showalter (Introduction)
Series: Wonderland Quartet #3
Description
Joyce Carol Oates' Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. As powerful and relevant today as it on its initial publication, them chronicles the tumultuous lives of a family living on the edge of ruin in the Detroit slums, from the 1930s to the 1967 race riots. Praised by The Nation for her "potent, life-gripping imagination," Oates traces the aspirations and struggles of Loretta Wendall, a dreamy young mother who is filled with regret by the age of sixteen, and the subsequent destinies of her children, Maureen and Jules, who must fight to survive in a world of violence and danger.Winner of the National Book Award, them is an enthralling novel about love, class, race, and the inhumanity of urban life. It is, raves The New York Times, "a superbly accomplished vision.2Them is the third novel in the Wonderland Quartet. The books that complete this acclaimed series, A Garden of Earthly Delights, Expensive People, and Wonderland, are also available from the Modern Library.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 576 pages
- Publisher Modern Library
- Publication Date September 12th 2006
- First Publication 11/06/69
- Language English
- ISBN 9780345484406
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Detroit, Michigan (United States)']
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