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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. As powerful and relevant today as it on its initial publication, them chronicles the tumultuous lives of a family living on the edge of ruin in the Detroit slums, from the 1930s to the 1967 race riots. Praised by The Nation for her “potent, life-gripping imagination,” Oates traces the aspirations and struggles of Loretta Wendall, a dreamy young mother who is filled with regret by the age of sixteen, and the subsequent destinies of her children, Maureen and Jules, who must fight to survive in a world of violence and danger.

Winner of the National Book Award, them is an enthralling novel about love, class, race, and the inhumanity of urban life. It is, raves The New York Times, “a superbly accomplished vision.”

Them is the third novel in the Wonderland Quartet. The books that complete this acclaimed series, A Garden of Earthly Delights, Expensive People, and Wonderland, are also available from the Modern Library. --Ce texte provient de la Paperback édition.

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"Future archaeologists equipped with only her oeuvre could easily piece together the whole of postwar America."
----Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

"[Oates'] gifts are at least equal to those of the late Flannery O'Connor. If she is not absolutely more serious than Nabokov, she is more obviously 'ours' and therefore to be taken more seriously by us. Everything she touches turns to such blistering gold that sometimes I suspect she must have had Rumpelstiltskin in to help her spin it in the night."
----R. V. Cassill This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 5 star book, 5 star edition!, Oct. 14 2003
This review is from: them (Hardcover)
Before I read 'them' all that I had read by Mrs. Oates was 'We Were The Mulvaneys' which did not impress me all that much. Hearing all the hype about Oates being such a great writer, I thought that I should give her another chance. So I picked 'them' because it won the National Book Award.
I was amazed. With this work Oates proves that her writing stands well next to works by Doestoevsky, Hesse, Mann and most other great writers. This is definetly one of the top ten books written in the twentieth century, and perhaps the best book written post-war twenteith century.
Many times American's ask themselves, "what does it really mean to be an American?" One thing that this book does is answer that question in a very harsh way.
Are the characters in this novel hero's, or are they villans? Are there any hero's in the world? What is a hero, is a hero defined by one act of goodness, or is a hero defined by an unatural perfection? All of these questions arise in your mind as you read this incredible thought provoking novel.
The novel is very true to life, it is about a lower-class family in Detroit. Life for them is a struggle, a long obstacle leading to the comfort which is death.
The book is not one that will lift your spirits; it is very depressing. But sometimes a book like this is nessesary.

I highly reccomend buying the Modern Library Edition to anyone who is planning to buy the book. It is only a few dollars more and it has a lot to offer. It is the new revised edition and it has a very nice afterward by the authour. The Afterward is excellent! I'm not sure the Paperback edition has the extras that the Modern Library Edition has. But just buy the book in whatever edition.

Now I will rate the book from a scale of A-F in some certain catagories as I do in my book reviews:

Character Devolpment: A
Plot: B+
Thought Provoking: A+
Suspense: A-

With an overall grade of an A, you can see that this has become one of my favorite books.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 One of my favorites!, Déc 6 2002
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When I read this book it takes a hold of me and doesn't let me go. I've read it twice and both times I couldn't put it down. Makes for late nights when I have to get up early for work the next morning, but well worth it. Joyce Carol Oates is my favorite author, everytime I pick up a new book of hers I'm so thankful that I found her. Her style of writting is a joy to read. The world of literature is a much better place with her in it.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 My Favorite Novel, Sep 20 2002
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I first read Them in the mid '80's and was drawn to read it again in the mid '90's.I have just read it again in the year 2002. I can't seem to forget these charactors.They haunt me.This is my all time favorite American novel and I would encourage everyone to read it at least once.
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2.0étoiles sur 5 Them
I was assigned to read this book for my English Honors class. It was very painful. I have never read anything by Oates before. Read more
Publié le Avril 5 2004 par Karen Brady

5.0étoiles sur 5 A Work Of Excellence
This is one of Ms. Oates' earlier works set in Detroit.
It is a book of excellence as one generation is rolled into the other. Read more
Publié le Mars 3 2002 par Heather Marshall Negahdar

3.0étoiles sur 5 not as good as you must remember this or we were the mulvane
Although this work shows Oates in surprisingly good early form, her sentences don't have the rich roll of her later work. Read more
Publié le Oct. 16 2001 par Robert M. Barger

5.0étoiles sur 5 Not a fun book but fabulous acomplishment
Oates can write. She has a steam of consciousness style that makes you feel like you are in the head of a personï¿and, when her characters happen to be a bit off kilter--Oates... Read more
Publié le Aoû 25 2001 par Sandra Zickefoose

5.0étoiles sur 5 wonderful
I read this book many years ago and the memory of it is still with me. It is one of my top 10 favorite books of all time.
Publié le Aoû 16 2001 par marietta tangredi

5.0étoiles sur 5 Couldn't put it down
Probably my favorite of Oates books, and I am a HUGE fan. Starts off kinda slow, but I found myself staying up until all hours of the night because I didn't want to stop reading... Read more
Publié le Fév 22 2001

5.0étoiles sur 5 Because We Are Poor, Must We Be Vicious?
Joyce Carol Oates is a novelist of the first order. Her novel of postwar Detroit (really of postwar America), Them, is her best. Read more
Publié le Mai 29 2000 par David M. Koss

5.0étoiles sur 5 This book is at a constant climax!
This book was somewhat of a struggle for me, though I am a giant Joyce Carol Oates fan. I thought it wasn't possible, but "Them" is more of a brooding, dark, and... Read more
Publié le Mars 31 2000 par belladena

4.0étoiles sur 5 Disturbing, yet enthralling
In this novel the characters seemed to be desperately trying to escape from each other, but unable to escape the past they share together. Read more
Publié le Jui 11 1999 par rcoghill@polarnet.com (Remo Co...

5.0étoiles sur 5 Ominiously Enthralling.
This book describes the state of American turmoil during the 1960's with vivid imagery. Being in my mid-twenties and not alive to experience the 1960's, I feel this book provides... Read more
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