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Oates, Joyce Carol: American Academy
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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. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative and suspenseful look at the roiling secrets of America’s affluent suburbs.
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Yes, the same Joyce Carol Oates who packs one of the most lethal punches in American literature ... happens to be an astute observer of the sweet science. Oates filters her knockout collection of essays through multifaceted prisms of art, history, sexuality, and politics to directly confront and explore boxing's physical and commercial brutality, but also the sense of human struggle and survival that's at boxing's purest core. for the mysterious solace of those who can participate only vicariously in such drama: the drama of life in the flesh. Boxing has become America's tragic theater." And from her ringside perspective, Oates, a true heavyweight of letters, analyzes the performances just brilliantly. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Considering the enormity of Joyce Carol Oates' literary output, it is curious how, until recently, non-white characters have figured so peripherally in her works. This is especially interesting when one considers that she has said that she has always wanted, especially in her most ambitious novels, to capture the essence of the American experience — and the condition of African-Americans is surely one of the major themes of the American story.
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