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Them (Wonderland Quartet)
Joyce Carol Oates

Them (Wonderland Quartet)

Fawcett (Dec 12, 1984)
9780449206928
| Mass Market Paperback
480 pages | 107 x 175 mm | English
Dewey 813.54

Subject

  • African American Families
  • African Americans
  • Detroit (Mich.)
  • Family
  • Poor

Plot

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 fam-ily--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.

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Purchased Apr 29, 2016