Name: Them (Modern Library) (in English)
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Author: Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN: 9780345484406

portada Them (Modern Library) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Joyce Carol Oates

Introduction by

Elaine Showalter

Publisher

Modern Library

Year

2006

Language

English

Pages

546

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4 x 13.6 x 3.5 cm

Weight

0.44 kg.

ISBN

0345484401

ISBN13

9780345484406

Edition No.

2006

Synopsis "Them (Modern Library) (in English)"

"If the phrase 'woman of letters' existed, [Joyce Carol Oates] would be, foremost in this country, entitled to it."--John Updike, The New YorkerAs powerful and relevant today as it was 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," Joyce Carol 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. [Oates is] a superb storyteller. For sheer readability, them is unsurpassed."--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Joyce Carol Oates

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(Lockport, Nueva York, 1938) Es una de las grandes figuras de la literatura contemporánea estadounidense. Autora de más de medio centenar de novelas, más de cuatrocientos relatos breves, más de una docena de libros de no ficción, once libros de poesía y nueve obras de teatro en sus más de cinco décadas de trabajo. Ha sido galardonada con numerosos premios, como el National Book Award, el PEN/Malamud Award, el Prix Fémina Étranger y, en España, con el Premio BBK Ja! Bilbao por el «modernísimo humor negro de su obra» y el Premio Pepe Carvalho 2021. En 2010 recibió la National Humanities Medal, el más alto galardón civil del gobierno estadounidense en el campo de las humanidades y, en 2012, el Premio Stone de la Oregon State University por su carrera literaria.

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