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Expensive People

Set in the late 1960s, this first-person confession is narrated by Richard Everett, a precocious and obese boy who sees himself as a minor character in the alarming drama unfolding around him. Fascinated by yet alienated from his attractive, self-absorbed parents and the privileged world they inhabit, Richard incisively analyzes his own mismanaged childhood, his pretentious private schooling, his "successful-executive" father, and his elusive mother. In an act of defiance and desperation, eleven-year-old Richard strikes out in a way that presages the violence of ever-younger Americans in the turbulent decades to come.

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  • "Een jongen uit een welgesteld milieu verzet zich met geweld tegen de oppervlakkige wereld van zijn ouders."
  • "Set in the late 1960s, this first-person confession is narrated by Richard Everett, a precocious and obese boy who sees himself as a minor character in the alarming drama unfolding around him. Fascinated by yet alienated from his attractive, self-absorbed parents and the privileged world they inhabit, Richard incisively analyzes his own mismanaged childhood, his pretentious private schooling, his "successful-executive" father, and his elusive mother. In an act of defiance and desperation, eleven-year-old Richard strikes out in a way that presages the violence of ever-younger Americans in the turbulent decades to come."@en
  • "The narrator of this novel is Richard Everett, a 250 pound 18-year-old boy-genius sitting alone in a shabby rented room composing a memoir about how he assassinated his mother seven years before."
  • "A psychotic yet brilliant eighteen-year-old boy narrates his nightmarish tale of matricide against a backdrop of affluent, but barren suburbia."@en
  • "Story of a child murderer, told by the killer himself. The son of a successful businessman and his frustrated wife, he turns to murder in a desperate attempt at freedom. - Cover, p. 4."@en
  • "Oates's third novel, originally published in 1968, is the riveting story of a child murderer told by the killer himself. With a new afterword by the author. --Publisher."
  • "Oates's third novel, originally published in 1968, is the riveting story of a child murderer told by the killer himself. With a new afterword by the author. --Publisher."@en

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  • "Romány"
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Horror fiction"@en
  • "Horror fiction"
  • "Horror tales"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Børn og unge"@da
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"@en

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  • "Gente adinerada"
  • "Gent de casa bona"
  • "Expensive People"@en
  • "Luxusvilág; regény"
  • "Kalliita ihmisiä"@fi
  • "Kalliita ihmisiä"
  • "Expensive people"@en
  • "Expensive people"
  • "Luxusvilág : regény"
  • "Lidé na úrovni"
  • "Expensive people : [the wonderland quartet]"
  • "Luxusvilág : [regény]"@hu
  • "Expensive people. [Novel]"
  • "I de dyre kredse : oversat fra amerikansk af Birte Svensson"@da
  • "Dorogostoi︠a︡shchai︠a︡ publika : roman"
  • "I de dyre kredse"@da
  • "Gente adinerada"@es

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