First Love: A Gothic Tale; - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Language: English
Published by Ecco Press, Hopewell, NJ, 1996
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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A handsome stated first edition/first printing in Very Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket which shows a bit of sunning on spine and along edges. Beautifully bound in black stamped burgundy cloth; Eleven-year-old Josie and her self-indulgent mother Delia have come to live with great-aunt Esther Burkhardt in upstate New York. Here Josie meets her withdrawn 25-year-old cousin Jared, Jr. , on leave from seminary, who draws Josie into some bizarre sexual rituals. A haunting novel about the pain and helplessness of sexually abused children abandoned by the adults in their lives. First published in the Ontario Review in 1966; Woodcuts; 16mo.
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- Title
- First Love: A Gothic Tale; - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Publisher
- Ecco Press, Hopewell, NJ
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Fine+
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Cloth
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0880014571
- ISBN 13
- 9780880014571
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Barry Moser
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing.
- Seller catalogs
- A City That Doesn't Sleep, Author Collections::Oates, Joyce Carol, By Year Of Issue::1990s, Collection Starter::Hundred Dollars or Less, Fiction::Novels, First Editions
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About the Author
Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys; Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.
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