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Wonderland
Contributor(s): Oates, Joyce Carol (Author), Showalter, Elaine (Introduction by)
ISBN: 081297655X     ISBN-13: 9780812976557
Publisher: Modern Library
OUR PRICE:   $17.10  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2006
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Annotation: Oates pens a mesmerizing portrayal of Jesse Vogel: his tragic childhood, his pursuit of a career in neurosurgery, and his loss of his daughter to the counterculture.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical - General
- Fiction | Coming Of Age
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2006046639
Series: Wonderland Quartet (Paperback)
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (1.25 lbs) 528 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Great Lakes
- Cultural Region - Midwest
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
- Geographic Orientation - Michigan
 
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Publisher Description:
Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. Spanning from the Great Depression to the turbulent Vietnam War era, Wonderland is the epic account of Jesse Vogel, a boy who emerged from a family tragedy with his life spared but his world torn apart. Orphaned after watching his father murder his entire family, Jesse embarks on a personal odyssey that takes him from a Dickensian foster home to college and graduate school to the pinnacle of the medical profession. As an adult, Jesse must summon the strength to reach across the "generation gap" and rescue his endangered teenaged daughter, who has fallen into the drug-infused 1960s counterculture.

Hailed by Library Journal as "the greatest of Oates's novels," Wonderland is the capstone of a magnificent literary excursion that plunges beneath the glossy surface of American life.

Wonderland is the final novel in Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet. The books that complete this acclaimed series, A Garden of Earthly Delights, Expensive People, and them, are also available from the Modern Library.

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