Trade paperback edition in good condition. Some wear to cover. Fine reading copy. Wonderland Quartet #3.
“A man on his way to death cannot be helped.”
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. Loretta, beautiful and dreamy and full of regret by age sixteen, and her two children, Maureen and Jules, make up Oates’ vision of the American family—broken, marginal, and romantically proud. The novel’s title, pointedly uncapitalized, refers to those Americans who inhabit the outskirts of society—men and women, mothers and children—whose lives many authors in the 1960s had left unexamined.
Read Alikes for them: God Help the Child by Toni Morrison; Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks; We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
Trade paperback edition in good condition. Some wear to cover. Fine reading copy. Wonderland Quartet #3.
“A man on his way to death cannot be helped.”
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. Loretta, beautiful and dreamy and full of regret by age sixteen, and her two children, Maureen and Jules, make up Oates’ vision of the American family—broken, marginal, and romantically proud. The novel’s title, pointedly uncapitalized, refers to those Americans who inhabit the outskirts of society—men and women, mothers and children—whose lives many authors in the 1960s had left unexamined.
Read Alikes for them: God Help the Child by Toni Morrison; Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks; We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN 978-0-345-48440-6
Joyce Carol Oates
1969 (This ed. 2006)
Winner of the National Book Award
