Expensive People by Joyce Oates

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.

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 *

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.

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ISBN 13	9781860494840
ISBN 10	1860494846
Title	Expensive People
Author	Joyce Oates
Series	Virago Modern Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	1998-09-03
Number of pages	320
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