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Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates received the
1970 National Book Award in Fiction for Them.
She has had five other titles named short-listed Finalists
for the award: A Garden of Earthly Delights,
1968; Expensive People, 1969; Wonderland,
1972; Because It Is Bitter, Because It Is My Heart,
1990; and Blonde, 2000.
Lewis Carroll's Alice In
Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking-Glass
with its fluid blend of dreamlike narrative and
surreal fantasy, and its courageous, curious girl heroine,
has probably been the book that most influenced my imaginative
life. And I read it when I was so young, eight years
old, I had no "critical" reservations whatsoever.
Joyce Carol Oates
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