- Fiction, Working class families, Young women, Poor women
"A novel about class, race, and the horrific, glassy sparkle of urban life, Them chronicles the lives of the Wendalls, a family on the steep edge of poverty in the windy, riotous Detroit slums.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Joyce Carol Oates
- First published
- 1969
- Pages
- 508
- Publisher
- Vanguard Press, Gollancz, Fawcett Pub.
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English, cze
- ISBN
- 9780449206928
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First sentence
“One warm evening in August 1937 a girl in love stood before a mirror.”
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