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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. Set in the late 1960s, this first-person confession is narrated by Richard Everett, a precocious and obese boy who sees himself as a minor character in the alarming drama unfolding around him.
Fascinated by yet alienated from his attractive, self-absorbed parents and the privileged world they inhabit, Richard incisively analyzes his own mismanaged childhood, his pretentious private schooling, his “successful-executive” father, and his elusive mother. In an act of defiance and desperation, eleven-year-old Richard strikes out in a way that presages the violence of ever-younger Americans in the turbulent decades to come.
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Expensive People: A Novel
September 5, 2005, Ontario Review
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086538116X 9780865381162
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Expensive People (Virago Modern Classics)
September 3, 1998, Virago Press Ltd
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Expensive people
1990, Ontario Review Press, Distributed by George Braziller, Inc.
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Expensive people
1969, Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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