WONDERLAND by Joyce Carol Oates. 512 pages. Vanguard. $7.95.
Once again, it is time for this prolific lady's annual gothic revival. Wonderland is her tenth book in eight yearsa body of work that includes the novel, them, winner of the National Book Award for 1969. Blind cruelty, hypersensitivity and bizarre compulsions are particularly graphic in her new book. Medical students turn flamethrowers on laboratory monkeys in the name of science. Young geniuses are made to perform like sideshow freaks. A poetic intern confesses to having broiled and eaten a human uterus.
Heavy Freight. Yet Wonderland is anything...
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