Wonderland

NY: BOOK OF THE MONTH, 1971. 1ST. HARDBOUND. VERY GOOD in VERY GOOD jacket. 5.5 X 1.75 X 8.5. pp. 511. Copyright © 1971, 1992 by Joyce Carol Oates. All rights reserved. The poem Wonderland first appeared in Poetry Northwest, Autumn 1970, under the title Iris into Eye ; Part |, Chapter 3 appeared in slightly different form under the title The Dark in Southwest Review, Autumn 1970; Part |, Chapter 8 was originally published under the title Fat in Antaeus 2, Winter 1971. This edition was specially created in 1993 for Book-of-the-Month Club by arrangement with The Ontario Review, Inc. This edition copyright © 1993 by Book-of-the-Month Club Inc. Nominated for the National Book Award in 1971, Wonderland is the haunting story of Jesse Vogel. From a boyhood shattered by the loss of his family, through the rigors of medical school and the demanding life of neurosurgery, to the overwhelming loss of his daughter in the counterculture of the 1960s, Jesse is in pursuit of an American selfhood. The wonderlands of mid twentieth-century America and the human personality depicted here make this an extraordinarily powerful novel by an American master. This edition includes an Afterword by the author.