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An edition of Them (1969)

them

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"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 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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Fawcett Crest, Fawcett
Language
English
Pages
478

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Fiction Working class families Young women Poor women Poor Family Afro-American families Afro-Americans National Book Award Winner award:national_book_award=fiction award:national_book_award=1970 African Americans African American families Families Domestic fiction American fiction (fictional works by one author) Fiction, mystery & detective, general New York Times reviewed

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1969, Vanguard Press
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1969, Fawcett Crest, Fawcett
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1969, Fawcett Crest

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New York
Series
A Fawcett crest book

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.54
Library of Congress
PS3565.A8 T48 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
478 p. ;
Number of pages
478

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL18319399M
ISBN 10
0449206920, 0449239446
ISBN 13
9780449206928, 9780449239445
OCLC/WorldCat
15626377
LibraryThing
168378
Goodreads
228342

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL14958468W

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