The Wonderland Quartet: Expensive People (Series #2) (Paperback)

from jeffome

Interesting book that started a little slow but grew on me and i was very intrigued at the end. An odd expose from the perspective of the child who murdered.....a haunting portrait was created that made me feel blessed for having the great childhood that i had.....another good read from Oates...w...

from Bridget770

I love Joyce Carol Oates which is probably biased by the fact that I grew up in Buffalo, NY. But I really enjoy her writing style. [Expensive People] is a somewhat tongue-in-cheek tale about Suburbia. The story is told from the perspective of a son whose father climbed the corporate ladder (movin...

from starbox

An early (i968) work by this author; I'd say her writing got stronger in her later works, but this is still pretty compelling., as the 18 year old narrator loks back on his 11 year old self and begins "I was a child murderer." Child of dysfunctional parents- a financially successful father and a ...

from shanjan

Expensive People by Joyce Carol Oates is the second book in the Wonderland Series, a thematically linked set of four novels. It is a faux memoir told from the perspective of adolescent Richard Everett of his terrible childhood which culminates in him committing a murder. (This isn't a spoiler, th...

from danlai

I wouldn't say that I particularly liked or disliked this book, I found it more interesting than anything else. It's very postmodern--having a short story in the middle of the novel, that kind of thing. I would rather this book tell me the story in a more straight-forward way. At times the book s...