A Garden of Earthly Delights

A Garden of Earthly Delights
First edition
Author(s)	Joyce Carol Oates
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	The Wonderland Quartet
Genre(s)	Naturalist novel
Publisher	Vanguard Press
Publication date	1967
Media type	Print (hardcover & paperback)
Pages	440 pp
ISBN	NA
Followed by	Expensive People

A Garden Of Earthly Delights is a novel by Joyce Carol Oates, published by Vanguard in 1967. It was her second book published and it inaugurated the so-called Wonderland Quartet (1967 to 1971). It was a finalist for the annual U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.^[1]

A Garden follows Clara Walpole's ill-fated life and the four men who shaped it: Clara’s father, a bitter migrant farm worker; Lowry, who whisks the teenage Clara away and tempts her with love; Revere, a wealthy married business man who gives Clara stability; and Swan, Clara’s son who carries the physiological burden of Clara’s determination to escape her haphazard existence of violence and poverty.

For a recent Modern Library edition of the novel, Oates revised three-quarters of the original published version of the novel.^{[citation needed][clarification needed]}

References

External links

• Wonderland Quartet at Goodreads

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