Them (novel)
1969 novel by Joyce Carol Oates / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Them (stylized in all lowercase) is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, the third in her "Wonderland Quartet" following A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967) and Expensive People (1968) and preceding Wonderland (1971). It was published by Vanguard in 1969 and it won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1970.[1]
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Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
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Language | English |
Series | The Wonderland Quartet |
Genre | Naturalist novel |
Publisher | Vanguard Press (first); Fawcett Books (reissue paperback) |
Publication date | June 1969 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 508 pp (hard) 480 pp (paper) |
ISBN | 0-8149-0668-0 |
OCLC | 29458 |
813/.5/4 | |
LC Class | PZ4.O122 Th PS3565.A8 |
Preceded by | Expensive People |
Followed by | Wonderland |
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Many years and many awards later, Oates surmised that them and Blonde (2000) were the works she will most be remembered for, and would most want a new reader to select, though she added that "I could as easily have chosen a number of titles."[2]