- Death, Parricide, Mothers, Literature
Joyce Carol Oates’s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative and suspenseful look at the roiling secrets of America’s affluent suburbs.
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Grave, bleak, prestige and character-led.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Joyce Carol Oates
- First published
- 1968
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group, Stock, Ontario Review
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- French, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780865380691
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