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| Title | : | Wonderland (Wonderland Quartet #4) |
| Author | : | Joyce Carol Oates |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 528 pages |
| Published | : | September 12th 2006 by Modern Library (first published 1971) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Novels. The United States Of America. Classics. Contemporary. Literary Fiction. Literature. American |
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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. J From the Trade Paperback edition.Particularize Books Supposing Wonderland (Wonderland Quartet #4)
| Original Title: | Wonderland |
| ISBN: | 081297655X (ISBN13: 9780812976557) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Wonderland Quartet #4 |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1972) |
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Ratings: 3.81 From 1116 Users | 120 ReviewsCommentary Regarding Books Wonderland (Wonderland Quartet #4)
I read half of this book and finally got bogged down by the dense prose and the hair's breadth-to-hair's breadth account of every single patient, impression, and thought of the main characters. So I didn't finish it. I actually enjoyed the beginning, though. There is no one who is more a master of prose writing than Joyce Carol Oates, but maybe she has an unfulfilled subconscious wish to be a psychologist. Or maybe she is just so much brighter than the rest of us that she is in someA quite average book by Joyce Carol Oates standards, I havent managed to obtain a grip on her older works aside from them. Still, Wonderland is exquisitely written, of course, but I had a tough time connecting with the main character and his coming of age. A rather dreary book, really ... and I like dreary. But this was a bit much! Mayhap Ill revisit it in the future.
I did not particularly enjoy this book. It was very well-written, as can only be expected by Joyce Carol Oates, but it was almost too difficult to read at points. There were times I put the book down in disgust and felt myself on the verge of tears--though sometimes this is the mark of an excellent writer, here it was just completely unnecessary. I would NOT recommend this be read by anybody with any type of eating disorder or body issues. There are overly descriptive tellings of binge eating
What a profound talent at an early age. Many of Oates first novels were written at the peak of her talent. The Wonderland Quartet is an example, beginning with The Garden of Earthly Delights and concluding with Wonderland. In the latter, the section describing Jesses experience as a medical resident is superb. Oates invades the mentality of a character acutely and her research is astounding in it detail. Strange obsessions with weight permeate her books, especially a revulsion with obesity (one
Incarnations of a personalityJoyce Carol Oates 1971 novel Wonderland is presented in a series of sections, windows into the shifting identity of its main character. It opens in a small town in upstate New York, Yewville, thrusting us into the life of a fourteen-year-old boy, Jesse Harte. It is 1939 and there is a pervasive sense of disquietude and unspoken turmoil that Jesse senses accurately. His monotonous, uninspiring existence is suddenly plunged into a frenzied terror as he miraculously
(The afterword is fantastic, too.) I wonder if presenting the characters overwhelmingly through their behaviour would be sufficient. Not seeing how they process their experiences internally and consciously, I miss seeing well rounded persons, whatever their vicissitudes be, in place of anemic ghosts. The characters don't reflect, don't take their time in selecting their best possible options, blundering half-consciously, or not even, through their lives. Is this exactly the point of the book?
I tried. I read every word on every page and drug myself through page after page of disgusting descriptions and unlikely situations and in the end....In the end I was left wishing that someone really would die tonight
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