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 her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard existence of violence and poverty, determined not to repeat her mother’s life, Clara struggles for independence by way of her relationships with four very different men: her father, a family man turned itinerant laborer, smoldering with resentment; the mysterious Lowry, who rescues Clara as a teenager and offers her the possibility of love; Revere, a wealthy landowner who provides Clara with stability; and Swan, Clara’s son, who bears the psychological and spiritual burden of his mother’s ambition.A Garden of Earthly Delights is the first novel in the Wonderland Quartet. The books that complete this acclaimed series, Expensive People , them, and Wonderland , are also available from the Modern Library.
Kvarteto ze Země Zázraků Série
Tato série proniká do hlubin americké společnosti a zkoumá složité vztahy a aspirace mladých lidí. Sledujte životy ambiciózních postav, které se snaží překonat své společenské postavení a najít svou identitu v turbulentních dobách. Každý díl nabízí strhující pohled na osobní boje, lásky a zklamání, které formují osud jednotlivců i jejich rodin. Je to poutavé literární dílo, které zachycuje podstatu hledání lepšího života.
Doporučené pořadí čtení
Strhující příběh sebedestrukce a neúprosné kritiky vlastních rodičů z úst dětského vraha Richarda. Kniha Lidé na úrovni je ohromující kombinace sociální satiry a gotického hororu a byla roku 1968 nominována na National Book Award.
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Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. As powerful and relevant today as it on its initial publication, them chronicles the tumultuous lives of a family living on the edge of ruin in the Detroit slums, from the 1930s to the 1967 race riots. Praised by The Nation for her "potent, life-gripping imagination", Oates traces the aspirations and struggles of Loretta Wendall, a dreamy young mother who is filled with regret by the age of sixteen, and the subsequent destinies of her children, Maureen and Jules, who must fight to survive in a world of violence and danger. Winner of the National Book Award, them is an enthralling novel about love, class, race, and the inhumanity of urban life. It is, raves The New York Times , "a superbly accomplished vision". Them is the third novel in the Wonderland Quartet. The books that complete this acclaimed series, A Garden of Earthly Delights , Expensive People, and Wonderland , are also available from the Modern Library.
Velký román, který na dramatickém životním příběhu lékaře ukazuje vývoj USA od čtyřicátých let po vypjatá léta šedesátá. V typickém autorčině stylu se mísí realismus vycházející z amerických tradic s naturalistickými, někdy až morbidně působícími prvky.