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A Garden of Earthly Delights

Joyce Carol Oates

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#2466 of 8,085 books · #1036 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction (1968).

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.

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Publisher
Jin ri shi jie chu ban she
ISBN-13
9784653035022
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Poverty and class struggleMother-son relationshipsAmbition and the American Dream

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