First Love: A Gothic Tale

Oates, Joyce Carol

ISBN 10: 0880014571 / ISBN 13: 9780880014571

Published by Ecco Press, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1996

About this Item

Non-price clipped dj may have trace of shopwear. Boards show no wear. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. All pages tight in binding. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 119196

Bibliographic Details

• Title: First Love: A Gothic Tale
• Publisher: Ecco Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0880014571
• ISBN 13: 9780880014571
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Illustrator: Moser, Barry
• Edition: First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Haunting woodcut illustrations complement a dark tale of adolescent love, divided family loyalties, psychological manipulation, and betrayal in the story of eleven-year-old Josie and her relationship with an intriguing, twenty-five-year-old cousin, Jared. 20,000 first printing.

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.