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Expensive People (Virago modern classics)

Expensive People (Virago modern classics)

by JoyceCarolOates (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

    $6.76
Synopsis

Expensive, affluent, yes - but morally bankrupt - this is the suburbanite society from which Joyce Carol Oates carves out an electrifying novel of Gothic suspense. EXPENSIVE PEOPLE is the journal of Richard Elwood, an eighteen-year-old looking back with disaffection at his childhood in a succession of wealthy suburbs. He buys a rifle by mail-order ('German Sniper Rifle used by Mad Fanatic SS Men - Limited Number!') and roams the neighbourhood at night with it...The suspense is electrifying, the writing lethal. The first sentence is guaranteed to rivet your eyes to the page: 'I was a child murderer,' begins Richard. Now read on.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 308
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Published: 03 Sep 1998
ISBN 10: 1860494846
ISBN 13: 9781860494840
Book Overview: * Published to coincide with her new novel Man Crazy * Full UK author tour on publication * Post-publication advertising campaign

Media Reviews
Terrifying ... searing ... important * KIRKUS REVIEWS *
Cuts to the bone in its chilling effectiveness * PUBLISHERS WEEKLY *
You cannot put this book away after you have opened I t... hypnotic, fascinating and electrifying * DETROIT NEWS *
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.