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| | JOYCE CAROL OATES: them (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | "Them" are also the forces that tear at their happinessignorance, intolerance, the loneliness of being a part and yet apart; the differences between rich and poor, white and fl, the loved and the lover. |
 | | THEM is an extraordinary novel, a work that once again reveals Miss Oates's remarkable and compassionate insight, her true narrative skill, and her high artistry. |
 | | Alone among my novels them is prefaced by an Author's Note, terse, equivocal, and possibly helpfulat the very least by directing the reader's attention to the fact, not a negligible one, that the title them refers to certain people and is not a shorthand "poetic" way of alluding to all Americans. |
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