A Garden of Earthly Delights-Fast Shipping

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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 exploresocial class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of EarthlyDelights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautifuldaughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazardexistence of violence and poverty, determined not to repeat her mother’s life, Clarastruggles for independence by way of her relationships with four very different men:her father, a family man turned itinerant laborer, smoldering with resentment; themysterious Lowry, who rescues Clara as a teenager and offers her the possibilityof 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 books that complete this acclaimed series, Expensive People, them, and Wonderland,are also available from the Modern Library.