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Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Year: 1969
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Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction in 1970.

From the 1930s through the race riots of 1967, the members of the Wendall family, living in inner-city Detroit, struggle to understand the obscure forces constantly tearing at their lives and happiness. Winner of the National Book Award.

'When Miss Oates' potent, lifegripping imagination and her skill at narrative are conjoined, as they are pre-eminently in THEM, she is a prodigious writer.' -The Nation
This book is part of the "Wonderland Quartet" series.
Here are some other books from this series:
A Garden of Earthly Delights
First published 1967
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Expensive People
First published 1968
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, Pop Rating:1.5/10
Wonderland
First published 1971
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, Pop Rating:1.3/10
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