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Indlæser... Wonderland (1971)af Joyce Carol Oates
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Reading this, I thought of Updike's Rabbit Angstrom from time to time, probably due to the time period. This was different in many ways though, in a horrific sort of way that Oates shoves our faces into reality. ( ) Joyce Carol Oates is brilliant, and this novel portrays the full depth of her writing talent. It begins with a boy, Jesse, witnessing the aftermath of his father's killing spree on his own family and then committing suicide. He is shuffled from one place to another, abandoned by his strange grandfather and an even stranger adoptive family. Somehow he manages to finish medical school with honors, marries, has two daughters and is an acclaimed surgeon. The tragedies in his life are myriad and the ending is horrific. It couldn't have ended any differently and remained true to the essence of Jesse's life. It is beautifully written as only JCO can write. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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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. -- Publisher. No library descriptions found. |
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