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• petersigrist - Jul 31 2007 | books, authors, people, history, cities

  As of yesterday evening I've been irretrievably caught up in "Them." For a few days I was thinking of stopping halfway because the characters didn't seem very believable. But she threw in a plot twist that blew my mind, and now I can't put it down.

  This site has a list of her work, along with an audio interview, related articles, and links. She's so incredibly prolific. Her latest is "The Gravedigger's Daughter," which I haven't read yet.

  Quoted: 'Them' (1969) "In 'Them' [Oates] has taken up with a collection of louche louts and cunning simpletons gathered together in and around the city of Detroit, Mich.; she has furnished them with a nice little streak of domesticated craziness that keeps the novel fluid and enables it to hit us, every so often, a crashing unpredictable blow over the back of the head."