{"product_id":"carol-joyce-oates-expensive-people-9780812976540","title":"Expensive People","description":"Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In Expensive People, Oates takes a provocative and suspenseful look at the roiling secrets of America's affluent suburbs. Set in the late 1960s, this first-person confession is narrated by Richard Everett, a precocious and obese boy who sees himself as a minor character in the alarming drama unfolding around him. Fascinated by yet alienated from his attractive, self-absorbed parents and the privileged world they inhabit, Richard incisively analyzes his own mismanaged childhood, his pretentious private schooling, his \"successful-executive” father, and his elusive mother. In an act of defiance and desperation, eleven-year-old Richard strikes out in a way that presages the violence of ever-younger Americans in the turbulent decades to come. A National Book Award finalist, Expensive People is a stunning combination of social satire and gothic horror. \"You cannot put this novel away after you have opened it,” said The Detroit News. \"This is that kind of book-hypnotic, fascinating, and electrifying.” Expensive People is the second novel in the Wonderland Quartet. The books that complete this acclaimed series, A Garden of Earthly Delights, them, and Wonderland, are also available from the Modern Library.","brand":"Penguin Random House LLC (No Starch)","offers":[{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":53419342889302,"sku":"9780812976540-V","price":15.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780812976540_1.jpg?v=1778144727","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/carol-joyce-oates-expensive-people-9780812976540","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}