SpoilersJoyce Carol Oates' 'Them' is a dark yet beautiful piece of with. At times, it reminds me of Flannery O'Connor, or McCullers southern gothic style—'Them', although considered a work of 'realistic fiction', is just slightly insane, like someone chatty Cathy waiting at a lonely bus stop with...
This book is a good read, despite already knowing the basic plot -- as I believe everyone does who has ever heard of it (the title rather gives it away, too). March builds his narrative cleverly and precisely. He opens the story by focusing upon a single family and their social circle, in a small...
This book was published in 1967 and is the first book of the Wonderland Quartet. That year I was a junior at the University of Michigan, married with a one year old son. I had recently avoided being drafted because I was a father. I worked almost full time at the Ann Arbor Post Office as an eveni...