Expensive People Joyce Oates

Name: Expensive People By Joyce Oates
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Expensive People by Joyce Oates

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SeriesVirago Modern Classics

Summary

First publication in Virago Modern Classics for one of Joyce Carol Oates' finest novels, an electrifying novel told from the view point of a precocious, pathological teenager.

Expensive People Summary

Expensive People by Joyce Oates

Expensive, affluent, yes - but morally bankrupt - this is the suburbanite society from which Joyce Carol Oates carves out an electrifying novel of Gothic suspense. EXPENSIVE PEOPLE is the journal of Richard Elwood, an eighteen-year-old looking back with disaffection at his childhood in a succession of wealthy suburbs. He buys a rifle by mail-order ('German Sniper Rifle used by Mad Fanatic SS Men - Limited Number!') and roams the neighbourhood at night with it...The suspense is electrifying, the writing lethal. The first sentence is guaranteed to rivet your eyes to the page: 'I was a child murderer,' begins Richard. Now read on.

Expensive People Reviews

Her writing is sinister, gothic and full of atmosphere * Sunday Times *
Expensive People . . . Joyce Carol Oates has made a very large demand upon her literary imagination and her talent * New York Times *
Terrifying . . . searing . . . important * Kirkus Reviews *
Cuts to the bone in its chilling effectiveness * Publishers Weekly *
You cannot put this book away after you have opened it . . . hypnotic, fascinating and electrifying * Detroit News *
Terrifying ... searing ... important * KIRKUS REVIEWS *
Cuts to the bone in its chilling effectiveness * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *
You cannot put this book away after you have opened I t... hypnotic, fascinating and electrifying * DETROIT NEWS *

About Joyce Oates

Joyce Carol Oates was born in New York in 1938. She has written many novels and numerous collections of stories, poetry and plays. Oates is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize for Lifetime Achievement, and has been nominated several times for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national best sellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde; and the New York Times best seller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. In 2020 she was awarded the Cino Del Duca World Prize for Literature. She is currently the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. Elaine Showalter author of A Literature of Their Own, A Jury of their Peers among many books, is professor emerita at Princeton University.

Additional information

Sku

GOR000960428

ISBN 13

9781860494840

ISBN 10

1860494846

Title

Expensive People by Joyce Oates

Author

Joyce Oates

Series

Virago Modern Classics

Condition

Used - Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Little, Brown Book Group

Year published

19980903

Number of pages

320

Prizes

N/A

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