Wonderland

"Joyce Carol Oates has held the admiring attention of a distinguished audience with her fictional museums of the grotesque....Like a child frightening another with ghost stories, Miss Oates tries to scare us half to death with her kinky yarns....But because her prose is so remorselessly hyped up, we break free of its dense foliage laughing rather than shivering in our boots....Miss Oates at 32 is very much alive, and we may expect more brilliant work from her. Wonderland is merely a bad, a very bad, single performance."Oates, Joyce Carol is the author of 'Wonderland', published 2006 under ISBN 9780812976557 and ISBN 081297655X.