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In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Joyce Carol Oates introduces Clara Walpole, the striking daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers, who strives to escape a life of violence and poverty. Clara’s quest for autonomy is shaped by her complex relationships with four men: a resentful itinerant father, a mysterious rescuer named Lowry who offers her love, a wealthy landowner Revere who provides stability, and her son Swan, who inherits Clara’s psychological and spiritual burdens. The novel, the first in Oates’s Wonderland Quartet, explores themes of social class and the inner lives of young Americans.
First publish date: 1967
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Joyce Carol Oates
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