Expensive People, Paperback / softback Book

Expensive People Paperback / softback

Part of the Virago Modern Classics series

Paperback / softback

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Expensive, affluent, yes - but morally bankrupt - this is the suburbanite society from which Joyce Carol Oates carves out an electrifying novel of Gothic suspense.

EXPENSIVE PEOPLE is the journal of Richard Elwood, an eighteen-year-old looking back with disaffection at his childhood in a succession of wealthy suburbs.

He buys a rifle by mail-order ('German Sniper Rifle used by Mad Fanatic SS Men - Limited Number!') and roams the neighbourhood at night with it...The suspense is electrifying, the writing lethal.

The first sentence is guaranteed to rivet your eyes to the page: 'I was a child murderer,' begins Richard.

Now read on.

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