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 f.
Modern Library Expensive people, paperback/joyce carol oates
