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Them
by Joyce Carol Oates
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Based on the family story of one of Oates's own students at the University of Detroit, "Them" chronicles the troubled life of Maureen Wendall, who begins to turn tricks at 16. Beaten by her stepfather, she retreats into catatonia. When she emerges she attends college, seduces a professor, and breaks up his marriage. Meanwhile, her brother Jules obsesses over a girl named Nadine who shoots him in the chest and almost kills him. Oates portrays a violent and turbulent world to which the backdrop of race riots in the Detroit slums and the use of the author herself as a minor character add a realistic edge. The novel won the National Book Award in 1969.
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9780449206928,
Paperback,
Ballantine Books,
1996
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9780679640257,
Hardcover,
Random House Inc,
2000
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9780814906682,
Hardcover,
Random House Inc,
1969
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9780345484406,
Paperback,
Random House Inc,
2006
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Publisher Notes
The members of the Wendall family struggle for thirty years to understand the obscure forces constantly tearing at their lives and happiness, in a revised edition of the novel first published in 1969. Winner of the National Book Award.
Media Reviews
"Nightmare is Miss Oates's vein....Generally, the current of narrative runs swift and strong, the language is lean and muscular; passages like that describing the mental degeneration of Maureen have a hallucinating particularity."
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