"In 'Them' has taken up with a collection of louche louts and cunning simpletons gathered together in and around the city of Detroit, Mich. In a shabby rented room composing a memoir about how he assassinated one of his parents seven years before." She has asked herself to become a 250-pound 18-year-old boy- genius sitting alone 'Expensive People,' Joyce Carol Oates has made a very large demand upon her literary imagination and her talent. ' Expensive People,' reviewed by John Knowles.For two-thirds of the way it is as good as anything the season has turned up so far, but in the last part it slips into a lower key and although theīook ends with a melodramatic flourish, we are a little too aware of the melodrama for the ending to have the effect it should." "'A Garden of Earthly Delights' is not altogether successful. "'With Shuddering Fall' succeeds in conveying a world where human beings are killers at heart and where the tidal waves of desire and love which engulf them can't carry them to redemption, only to a becalmed ' With Shuddering Fall,' reviewed by John Knowles.REVIEWS OF JOYCE CAROL OATES'S EARLIER BOOKS: Colin Harrison Reviews 'Faithless: Tales of Transgression' (March 25, 2001). Audio Interview: Joyce Carol Oates, Recorded on March 28, 2000.Reviews of Joyce Carol Oates's Earlier Books.With Reviews and Articles From the Archives of The New York Times
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