ISBN 0-8129-6834-4
EXPENSIVE PEOPLE,“hypnotic, fascinating and electrifying” (Detroit News), is the darkly comic story of Richard Everett, an obese teenager from a wealthy Detroit suburb, looking back on his childhood plan to murder his glamorous and neglectful mother.
ISBN 0-8129-7654-1
“Like most important writers—Joyce, Proust, Mann—Oates has an absolute identification with her material: the spirit of a society at a crucial point in its history.”
—Newsweek
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FOUR BRILLIANT NOVELS THAT EXPLORE SOCIAL CLASS ACROSS TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA—ADDING UPTO THREE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTS AND ONE NBA WINNER.
THEM,winner of the National Book Award, is the remarkable saga of an inner-city Detroit family, spanning from the end of the Depression to the 1967 race riots. According to The Nation, “When Miss Oates’s potent, life-gripping imagination and her skill at narrative are conjoined, as they are preeminently in them, she is a prodigious writer.”
ISBN 0-345-4840-1
WONDERLAND,called “the greatest of Oates’s novels” by Library Journal, is the dramatic chronicle of a traumatized boy from Lockport, New York, who becomes a successful Chicago neurosurgeon, only to watch his own daughter slide down the social ladder.
ISBN 0-8129-7655-X
With an Introduction to the Quartet by Elaine Showalter.
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