The Rise of Life on Earth. [Signed by Joyce Carol Oates].

Oates, Joyce Carol.

ISBN 10: 0811211711 / ISBN 13: 9780811211710

Published by NY: New Directions, 1991

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First edition, first printing. A near fine copy, in near fine, unclipped dust jacket that is just slightly misfolded. This has been simply SIGNED BY JOYCE CAROL OATES on the half-title page. Seller Inventory # 4005

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Rise of Life on Earth. [Signed by Joyce ...

Publisher: NY: New Directions

Publication Date: 1991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

Kathleen Hennessy, an attentive, overworked nurse's aide whose childhood had been shattered by abuse, divorce, and murder, hides an intense fury and an indifference to evil under a mask of sweetness and passivity

From the Back Cover:

The author draws the reader into the secret life of Kathleen Hennessy, a nurse's aide who, as both martyr and avenging angel, is a memorable portrait of one of the 'insulted and injured' of American society. Set in the underside of working-class Detroit of the '60s and '70s, this short, lyric novel sketches Kathleen's violent childhood-shattered by a broken home, child-beating, and murder-and follows her into her early adult years as a hospital health-care worker. Overworked, underpaid, and quietly overzealous, Kathleen falls in love with a young doctor, whose exploitation of her sets the course of the remainder of her life, in which her passivity masks a deep fury and secret resolve to take revenge.