Expensive, affluent, yes - but morally bankrupt - this is the suburbanite society from which Joyce Carol Oates carves out an electrifying novel of Gothic suspense. EXPENSIVE PEOPLE is the journal of Richard Elwood, an eighteen-year-old looking back with disaffection at his childhood in a succession of wealthy suburbs. He buys a rifle by mail-order ('German Sniper Rifle used by Mad Fanatic SS Men - Limited Number!') and roams the neighbourhood at night with it...The suspense is electrifying, the writing lethal. The first sentence is guaranteed to rivet your eyes to the page: 'I was a child murderer,' begins Richard. Now read on.
| ISBN: | 9781860494840 |
| Publication date: | 3rd September 1998 |
| Author: | Joyce Oates, Elaine Showalter |
| Publisher: | Virago Press Ltd an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |