Wonderland (The Wonderland Quartet)

Wonderland (The Wonderland Quartet)

Joyce Carol Oates€s Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. Spanning from the Great Depression to the turbulent Vietnam War era, <i>Wonderland</i> 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 father murder his entire family, Jesse embarks on a personal odyssey that takes him from a Dickensian foster home to college and graduate school to the pinnacle of the medical profession. As an adult, Jesse must summon the strength to reach across the €œgeneration gap€ and rescue his endangered teenaged daughter, who has fallen into the drug-infused 1960s counterculture. <br><br>Hailed by Library Journal as €œthe greatest of Oates€s novels,€ <i>Wonderland </i>is the capstone of a magnificent literary excursion that plunges beneath the glossy surface of American life. <br><br><i>Wonderland</i> is the final novel in Joyce Carol Oates€s Wonderland Quartet. The books that complete this acclaimed series, <i>A Garden of Earthly Delights</i>, <i>Expensive People</i>, and them, are also available from the Modern Library.<br><br>J