Them
by Joyce Carol Oates | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: Global Overview for this book
ISBN: Global Overview for this book
Registered by arugh48187 of Highland Park, Illinois USA on 7/22/2004
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When I was too young I read a book by Oates and hated it. So, I thought I was too young and would enjoy them when I was older. After reading We Were the Mulvaneys, I have decided that Oates is just not my cup of tea. I bid this one fond adieu without reading it.
From the Publisher
Winner of the National Book Award and in print for more than thirty years, them ranks as one of the most masterly portraits of postwar America ever written by a novelist. Including several new pages and text substantially revised and updated by the author, this Modern Library edition is the most current and accurate version available of Oates' seminal work.
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.
From the Publisher
Winner of the National Book Award and in print for more than thirty years, them ranks as one of the most masterly portraits of postwar America ever written by a novelist. Including several new pages and text substantially revised and updated by the author, this Modern Library edition is the most current and accurate version available of Oates' seminal work.
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.
Journal Entry 2 by arugh48187 at Post Office at 153rd and Garrett in -- Mailed, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA on Thursday, December 9, 2004
Released on Thursday, December 09, 2004 at about 1:00:00 PM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at Post Office at 153rd and Garrett in Apple Valley, Minnesota Controlled Releases.
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Sending out to aliaskris29 as the December Happy Holidays RABCK fiesta book. This one is for 9 December.
RELEASE NOTES:
Sending out to aliaskris29 as the December Happy Holidays RABCK fiesta book. This one is for 9 December.
i hope i like this book - looks interesting i liked foxfire ... thanks very much!
Journal Entry 4 by aliaskris29 at To A Fellow BookCrosser in Post office, A book trading site -- Controlled Releases on Thursday, March 3, 2005
Released 19 yrs ago (3/3/2005 UTC) at To A Fellow BookCrosser in Post office, A book trading site -- Controlled Releases
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This book is being released into my RABCK bookbox being sent to KF- in Georgia for her to release at her Meet Ups and OBCZ in the USA. Good luck book - please journal when you get this book ... The books in this box came from various people - i hope they all find a same home.
This book is being released into my RABCK bookbox being sent to KF- in Georgia for her to release at her Meet Ups and OBCZ in the USA. Good luck book - please journal when you get this book ... The books in this box came from various people - i hope they all find a same home.
Journal Entry 6 by KF-in-Georgia at Johnnie MacCracken's Celtic Firehouse Pub in Marietta, Georgia USA on Monday, April 11, 2005