Them
by Joyce Carol Oates | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
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Registered by geishabird of Toronto, Ontario Canada on 11/28/2004
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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, 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. Alfred Kazin called her subject "the sheer rich chaos of American life." The Nation wrote, "When Miss Oates' potent, life-gripping imagination and her skill at narrative are conjoined, as they are preeminently in them, she is a prodigious writer."
I like Oates' writing but this book has been hanging around unread for some time now, and while I still hope to read it one day, I really need to make some room on my bookshelves, so this copy is going to have to go out into the world.
Journal Entry 3 by geishabird at Starbucks - Yonge And Bloor in Toronto, Ontario Canada on Thursday, May 31, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (6/1/2007 UTC) at Starbucks - Yonge And Bloor in Toronto, Ontario Canada
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