A masterly work from a writer with the uncanny ability to give us a cinemascopic vision of her America ( National Review ), A Garden of Earthly Delights is the opening stanza in what would become one of the most powerful and engrossing story arcs in literature.
Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans.
In A Garden of Earthly Delights , Oates presents one of.