- Fiction, Mothers and sons, Illegitimate children, Fathers and daughters
In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Joyce Carol Oates
- First published
- 1967
- Pages
- 440
- Publisher
- Gollancz, Vanguard Press, Izd-vo "Pressa"
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- Chinese, English, Russian, German
- ISBN
- 9780575004719
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“On that day many years ago a rattling Ford truck carrying twenty-nine farmworkers and their children sideswiped a local truck carrying hogs to Little Rock on a rain-slick country highway.”
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