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A Garden of Earthly Delights (Virago modern classics)

A Garden of Earthly Delights (Virago modern classics)

by JoyceCarolOates (Author)

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    Paperback 2000

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Synopsis

An epic novel of the rough, tough and wild 'garden' of America - the back country which hosts a brutal way of life for immigrants. This is the jungle where men are violent and goaded to kill, where women have to learn to look after themselves, and where love is something to be wary of...

'This savage account of the child Clara...is impressive in its truth and power...where THE GRAPES OF WRATH was angrily sentimental, Miss Oates is calmly bitter...A powerful narrative engine drives the story along' - SUNDAY TIMES
'Joyce Carol Oates is a good novelist in the ranging, naturalistic American tradition...but A GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS is inward-looking enough to bring Miss Oates home to the novelist's true concern...it is this human reality that makes the book so valuable' - THE GUARDIAN

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 397
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Published: 06 Jul 2000
ISBN 10: 1860494838
ISBN 13: 9781860494833

Media Reviews
Virtuosity is a word often used of Miss Oates's work by critics, and it applies here * TLS *
The subtleties in the construction and symbolism of the book are remarkable ... This is a highly serious and imaginative book * OBSERVER *
A story of a brutal way of life told with considerable force * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
Author Bio
Joyce Carol Oates was born in 1938. She has written many novels and numerous collections of stories, poetry and plays. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Princeton University.