Expensive people

About “Expensive people”

Part of Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet exploring social class and the inner lives of young Americans, this novel examines the secrets of America's affluent suburbs in the late 1960s. Narrated by Richard Everett, a precocious, obese boy who sees himself as a minor character, it follows his alienation from his self-absorbed parents and his eventual act of defiance and desperation.