Description
In this brutal, transitional novel, Jesse Vogel begins life in a rural upstate New York town, where survival becomes synonymous with escape. Fleeing the shadow of a father who has murdered his family, Jesse grows up under the pressure of trauma, secrecy, and the relentless need to outrun what he cannot undo. As he moves from the Great Depression into adulthood—through marriage and a career shaped by the late 1960s—his inner life turns into a battleground where madness and memory blur the line between past and present. With Joyce Carol Oates’s famously squalling, high-voltage interiority, the book examines murder, inherited violence, and the ways a life can be both constructed and shattered by what it tries to forget.
Available Editions
paperback
Ontario Review Press
Published Jan 1, 1992
511 pages
ISBN: 0865380759
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Details
First Published
1971
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Wonderland by Joyce Carol Oates.