Expensive People
«Her writing is sinister, gothic and full of atmosphere»
Sunday Times
Expensive, affluent, yes - but morally bankrupt - this is the suburbanite society from which Joyce Carol Oates carves out an electrifying novel of Gothic suspense. EXPENSIVE PEOPLE is the journal of Richard Elwood, an eighteen-year-old looking back with disaffection at his childhood in a succession of wealthy suburbs. Les mer
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Expensive, affluent, yes - but morally bankrupt - this is the suburbanite society from which Joyce Carol Oates carves out an electrifying novel of Gothic suspense. EXPENSIVE PEOPLE is the journal of Richard Elwood, an eighteen-year-old looking back with disaffection at his childhood in a succession of wealthy suburbs. He buys a rifle by mail-order ('German Sniper Rifle used by Mad Fanatic SS Men - Limited Number!') and roams the neighbourhood at night with it...The suspense is electrifying, the writing lethal. The first sentence is guaranteed to rivet your eyes to the page: 'I was a child murderer,' begins Richard. Now read on.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Virago Press Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 320
- ISBN
- 9781860494840
- Utgivelsesår
- 1998
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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«Her writing is sinister, gothic and full of atmosphere»
Sunday Times
«Expensive People . . . Joyce Carol Oates has made a very large demand upon her literary imagination and her talent»
New York Times
«Terrifying . . . searing . . . important»
Kirkus Reviews
«Cuts to the bone in its chilling effectiveness»
Publishers Weekly
«You cannot put this book away after you have opened it . . . hypnotic, fascinating and electrifying »
Detroit News
«Terrifying ... searing ... important»
KIRKUS REVIEWS
«You cannot put this book away after you have opened I t... hypnotic, fascinating and electrifying»
DETROIT NEWS
«Cuts to the bone in its chilling effectiveness»
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY