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Garden of Earthly Delights by Joyce Carol Oates (2003, Trade Paperback)
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A masterly work from a writer with “the uncanny ability to give us a cinemascopic vision of her America” (National Review), A Garden of Earthly Delights is the opening stanza in what would become one of the most powerful and engrossing story arcs in literature.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100812968344
ISBN-139780812968347
eBay Product ID (ePID)2414834
Product Key Features
Book TitleGarden of Earthly Delights
Number of Pages448 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPsychological, Classics, Family Life, General, Literary
Publication Year2003
FeaturesRevised
GenreFiction
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
Book SeriesThe Wonderland Quartet Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight12.6 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-038012
ReviewsPraise 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 the words that describe Ms. Oates. From the very beginning, as these impressive and diverse novels make clear, her talents and interests and strengths have never found comfort in fashionable restraint. She's sought, instead, to do it all -- to face and brilliantly, inventively transact and give shape to as much of experience as possible, as if by no other means is a useful and persuasive gesture of moral imagination even conceivable. For us readers these are valuable books." --Richard Ford "These four novels reveal Oates' powers of observation and invention, her meticulous social documentation joined to her genius for forging unforgettable myths. She is one of the handful of great American novelists of the last hundred years. " --Edmund White "This rich, kaleidoscopic suite of novels displays the young Joyce Carol Oates exercising her formidable artistic powers to portray a turbulent twentieth-century America. They offer the reader a singular opportunity to experience some of Oates's best writing and to witness her development, novel by novel, into one of our finest contemporary writers." --Greg Johnson, author ofInvisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates "As a young writer, Joyce Carol Oates published four remarkable novels,A Garden of Earthly Delights(1967),Expensive People(1968),them(1969), andWonderland(1971). They were all nominated for the National Book Award, and Oates won the award forthemin 1970....Reprinting the series in modern paperback editions nearly forty years after their composition allows us a new perspective on their collective meaning and illuminates their place in Oates's overall career...The Wonderland Quartet, written in the "white heat" of youthful imagination and fervor, remains not only relevant but prophetic about the widening social and economic gulf in American society, the self-destructive violence of political extremism, and the terrifying hubris of science and technology. Bringing to life an unforgettable range of men and women, the Wonderland Quartet offers a compelling introduction to a protean and prodigious contemporary artist." --Elaine Showalter, from her introduction, which appears in all four of these new Modern Library editions, 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 the words that describe Ms. Oates. From the very beginning, as these impressive and diverse novels make clear, her talents and interests and strengths have never found comfort in fashionable restraint. She's sought, instead, to do it all -- to face and brilliantly, inventively transact and give shape to as much of experience as possible, as if by no other means is a useful and persuasive gesture of moral imagination even conceivable. For us readers these are valuable books." -- Richard Ford "These four novels reveal Oates' powers of observation and invention, her meticulous social documentation joined to her genius for forging unforgettable myths. She is one of the handful of great American novelists of the last hundred years. " -- Edmund White "This rich, kaleidoscopic suite of novels displays the young Joyce Carol Oates exercising her formidable artistic powers to portray a turbulent twentieth-century America. They offer the reader a singular opportunity to experience some of Oates's best writing and to witness her development, novel by novel, into one of our finest contemporary writers." -- Greg Johnson , author of Invisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates "As a young writer, Joyce Carol Oates published four remarkable novels, A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967), Expensive People (1968), them (1969), and Wonderland (1971). They were all nominated for the National Book Award, and Oates won the award for them in 1970....Reprinting the series in modern paperback editions nearly forty years after their composition allows us a new perspective on their collective meaning and illuminates their place in Oates's overall career...The Wonderland Quartet, written in the "white heat" of youthful imagination and fervor, remains not only relevant but prophetic about the widening social and economic gulf in American society, the self-destructive violence of political extremism, and the terrifying hubris of science and technology. Bringing to life an unforgettable range of men and women, the Wonderland Quartet offers a compelling introduction to a protean and prodigious contemporary artist." -- Elaine Showalter , from her introduction, which appears in all four of these new Modern Library editions From the Trade Paperback edition., 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 the words that describe Ms. Oates. From the very beginning, as these impressive and diverse novels make clear, her talents and interests and strengths have never found comfort in restraint. She's sought, instead, to do it all -- to face and brilliantly, inventively transact and give shape to as much of experience as possible, as if by no other means is a useful and persuasive gesture of moral imagination even conceivable. For us readers these are valuable books." --Richard Ford "These four novels reveal Oates' powers of observation and invention, her meticulous social documentation joined to her genius for forging unforgettable myths. She is one of the handful of great American novelists of the last hundred years. " --Edmund White "This rich, kaleidoscopic suite of novels displays the young Joyce Carol Oates exercising her formidable artistic powers to portray a turbulent twentieth-century America. They offer the reader a singular opportunity to experience some of Oates's best writing and to witness her development, novel by novel, into one of our finest contemporary writers." --Greg Johnson, author ofInvisible Writer: A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates "As a young writer, Joyce Carol Oates published four remarkable novels,A Garden of Earthly Delights(1967),Expensive People(1968),them(1969), andWonderland(1971). They were all nominated for the National Book Award, and Oates won the award forthemin 1970....Reprinting the series in modern paperback editions nearly forty years after their composition allows us a new perspective on their collective meaning and illuminates their place in Oates's overall career...The Wonderland Quartet, written in the "white heat" of youthful imagination and fervor, remains not only relevant but prophetic about the widening social and economic gulf in American society, the self-destructive violence of political extremism, and the terrifying hubris of science and technology. Bringing to life an unforgettable range of men and women, the Wonderland Quartet offers a compelling introduction to a protean and prodigious contemporary artist." --Elaine Showalter, from her introduction, which appears in all four of these new Modern Library editions, "If the phrase 'woman of letters' existed, she would be, foremost in this country, entitled to it." -John Updike
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingA
Series Volume Number1
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisA masterly work from a writer with "the uncanny ability to give us a cinemascopic vision of her America" ( National Review ), A Garden of Earthly Delights is the opening stanza in what would become one of the most powerful and engrossing story arcs in literature. Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights , Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard existence of violence and poverty, determined not to repeat her mother's life, Clara struggles for independence by way of her relationships with four very different men: her father, a family man turned itinerant laborer, smoldering with resentment; the mysterious Lowry, who rescues Clara as a teenager and offers her the possibility of love; Revere, a wealthy landowner who provides Clara with stability; and Swan, Clara's son, who bears the psychological and spiritual burden of his mother's ambition. A Garden of Earthly Delights is the first novel in the Wonderland Quartet. The books that complete this acclaimed series, Expensive People , them, and Wonderland , are also available from the Modern Library.
LC Classification NumberPS3565.A8G3 2003
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- Jul 29, 2019
not the same book i had read in high school. very disappointed!
BIG LETDOWN!!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
