Wonderland

Joyce Carol Oates

earliest edition we have, 1971 Gollancz, 1972 508 pages

Hailed by Library Journal as “the greatest of Oates’s novels,” Wonderland is the capstone of a magnificent literary excursion that plunges beneath the glossy surface of American life. Spanning from the Great Depression to the turbulent Vietnam War era, Wonderland is the epic account of Jesse Vogel, a boy who emerged from a family tragedy with his life spared but his world torn apart. Orphaned after watching his fat...

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Wonderland paperback · 2006 · Modern Library · 528 pages · 9780812976557
Wonderland edition · 1992 · Ontario Review Press · 511 pages
Wonderland edition · 1979 · Fawcett · 9780449229514
Wonderland edition · 1972 · Gollancz · 508 pages
Wonderland edition · 1971 · Vanguard Press · 512 pages

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