The Washington Post, July 20th, 2003
A GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS By Joyce Carol Oates Modern Library. 404 pp. Paperback, $13.95 Forgive me, but I just don't get it. When the Modern Library decided to reprint Joyce Carol Oates's 1967 novel A Garden of Earthly Delights as part of its 20th Century Rediscovery Series, she looked over the original text and felt dissatisfied. This was, after all, only her second novel, written when she was in her late twenties, and in retrospect she thought that her artistic reach had exceeded her technical grasp. So Oates proceeded to rewrite two-thirds of the novel: She concentrated on making the vo...
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