Description
In the late 1960s, a seemingly picture-perfect suburban neighborhood becomes the stage for a tense, unsettling unraveling of privilege and power. As relationships tighten and reputations are tested, the community’s polished surface gives way to roiling secrets—revealing how money, status, and desire can distort morality and turn everyday life into a kind of suspense. Joyce Carol Oates delivers her signature blend of psychological acuity and sharp social observation, probing the costs of belonging in a world where appearances are currency. With its provocative atmosphere and morally charged undercurrents, this novel examines class, identity, and the fragile boundaries between respectability and ruin.
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paperback
Fawcett
Published Mar 12, 1977
ISBN: 9780449231548
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Details
First Published
1968
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Expensive People by Joyce Carol Oates.