How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again Summary
Joyce Carol Oates

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How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again Summary

"How I Contemplated the World From the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again" was first published in magazine form in 1969 and then collected in her 1970 volume of short stories called The Wheel of Love. Its sarcastic rendering of upper-middle-class suburban life is not only an accurate critique of that aspect of American life, it is also a true rendering of the adolescent world view that rings as true today...

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