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Original Title:	Them
ISBN:	0345484401 (ISBN13: 9780345484406)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Wonderland Quartet #3
Setting:	Detroit, Michigan(United States)
Literary Awards:	National Book Award for Fiction (1970)

Them (Wonderland Quartet #3)

Joyce Carol Oates

Paperback | Pages: 576 pages

Rating: 3.71 | 3002 Users | 278 Reviews

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From the 1930s through the race riots of 1967, the members of the Wendall family, living in inner-city Detroit, struggle to understand the obscure forces constantly tearing at their lives and happiness. Winner of the National Book Award.

'When Miss Oates' potent, lifegripping imagination and her skill at narrative are conjoined, as they are pre-eminently in THEM, she is a prodigious writer.' -The Nation

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Title	:	Them (Wonderland Quartet #3)
Author	:	Joyce Carol Oates
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 576 pages
Published	:	September 12th 2006 by Modern Library (first published 1969)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels

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Ratings: 3.71 From 3002 Users | 278 Reviews

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What can you say about JCO? The most prolific great novelist of our times. She's written probably over a hundred books, all illustrating her depth and wisdom as a writer. She's taken modern icons and major headlines, from the life of Marilyn Monroe and Ted Kennedy to the race riots of the sixties, but mainly she's gone behind the scenes of peoples' private lives, to illustrate through literally hundreds of short stories and dozens of novels her breadth and scope of knowledge and attention to the

As a stranger in the World According to Joyce Carol Oates, I established one essential fact in reading them: The woman is indeed a superb writer. From page one, this novel (published when Oates was 31), pulls you in with its confident rhythms, sharp dialogue, and natural storytelling ease. It's the sordid and surreal chronicle of a "white trash" family in Detroit, spanning the years 1937 to 1967. Loretta Wendall is the family's crude, optimistic matriarch; her children Maureen and Jules struggle

A masterpiece. More controlled than some of Oates's later work, although this book could have been trimmed without harming it, especially at the end. I was totally immersed in the lives of Loretta and her family as they experience decades of life in Detroit, the city coming alive through the words.

A startling book in its lack of plot cohesion, but offering some really powerful sections on life, love, and family.

Anyone who knows me knows I am a JCO fan. So please take that into account when weighing my review. Quick summary. them is a portrayal of the other side of post WWII America. We all know about the Donna Reed, Dick Van Dyke, Father Knows Best idea of what life in our country should have been in the 50s and 60s. This is the flip side of that coin -- the ugly bit of city life for the (sometimes) working poor.But don't go looking for the main characters to be redeemed, to save themselves from their

I honestly don't get it.This is a book in which every character, all the time, is confused. At first, I thought maybe Ms Oates was not quite so sympathetic an observer as she thinks she is and that she may just think that her poor characters are poor because they're dumb. But no! The non-poor characters are just as befuddled. I have no idea how they get through their days. These people are constantly surrounded by a world that mystifies them, and they seem unable to remember things like where

Joyce Carol Oates is the Tom Waits of highbrow pulp fiction.My friend Jonathan Kotulski made the above statement, mostly in jest I think, during a recent phone conversation.We had been talking about Kafka, Musil, Borges, and David Foster Wallace, then I mentioned that I was still feverishly reading novels and short stories by Joyce Carol Oates, and that I didn't completely understand why. The Tom Waits comparison came from the fact that she has produced a huge catalog, and managed to stay