Expensive People

by Joyce Carol Oates

Richard Everett, aged 11, shoots and kills his mother with a mail-order gun. He confesses, but is not believed. Seven years later, he is still free, living in a filthy room and growing obese. His mother Nada, a writer, was an elusive woman, gravitating towards the monied people of town. Richard's father, Elwood, worshipped Nada, but was also a distant father.

Available editions of Expensive People

	9780865381162, Paperback, Ontario Review Pr, 2005 $5.74 (Good) Other copies of 9780865381162

	9780865380691, Paperback, W W Norton & Co Inc, 1990 $1.00 (Used, Very Good) Other copies of 9780865380691

	9780449200124, Paperback, Ballantine Books, 1980 $4.05 (Good) Other copies of 9780449200124

	9780812976540, Paperback, Modern Library, 2006 $6.82 (Used - Acceptable) Other copies of 9780812976540

Publisher Notes

A compelling study of the hidden life of America's suburbs presents the journal of eighteen-year old Richard Elwood, an unhappy, overweight teen who looks back at his childhood in a succession of wealthy suburbs and roams the neighborhood at night armed with a German sniper rifle. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Media Reviews

"The novel has among its other qualities, a great deal of old fashioned suspense....Nada is the core of the novel...She is a writer of national reputation. An extremely effective and relevent story by her is printed to prove her talent...Miss Oates has no trouble becoming a semi-insane, boy genius murderer, but she doesn't quite bring off a talented woman writer...Technically, Miss Oates has many problems, with which she was usually, but not always, successful..."

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