A review by jisimpson
Wonderland by Joyce Carol Oates

4.0

An obsessive book about the phantasmagoria of personality that over and over asks the question: Can a person completely escape their own history -- especially a bloody and violent one -- and make himself over? Do the events in youth follow us forever?

Wonderland spans the Great Depression, Korean and Vietnam Wars. A great American novel full of the usual Oates obsessions.