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Expensive People

2 Ratings: 5.0

A book by Joyce Carol Oates

Praise for The Wonderland Quartet, four early novels by Joyce Carol Oates A Garden of Earthly Delights Expensive People them Wonderland "Protean and prodigious are surely … see full wiki

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Author: Joyce Carol Oates

Publisher: Ontario Review Press

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review by mfbiwap123. May 12

Expensive People is hauntingly dark in its realism and truth.

JCO, one of this country's most prolific writers, has written a book that takes what we read in the newspapers and see on the news, into the depths of the mind of how a possible child killer may think, and why he/she would act out the violent aggression that seems to plague so many of our young people today. The brutality of pretension and lies that make people go on a downward spiral to their doom is very well explained in this novel. Upon reading it, we, the readers, come to realize that … more

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