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A GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS [SIGNED]

A GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS [SIGNED]

A GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS [SIGNED]
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A GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS [SIGNED]

by Oates, Joyce Carol

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New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 440 pages; G+/VG-; blue pictorial spine with white lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; marked shelfwear and rubbing to the jacket; minor creasing and chipping to the top and bottom of the jacket at the front and back; marked chipping and creasing to the head and tail of the spine and the corners of the jacket flaps; price unclipped '$5.95'; minor soiling to the jacket flaps; marked bumping to the corners of the boards and the head and tail of the spine; spine is cocked; stains at the top and bottom of the book at the front and the back boards where tape has been removed; remaining piece of tape at the bottom of the back board; top edge of the text block is dyed light red; minor soiling to the edges of the text block; minor age-toning and soiling to the front and back paste downs and free endpapers; damage to the ffep from some type of adhesive used by a previous owner; gutter split and webbing visible between half title and title page; signed flat by Oates on a pasted-in slip of paper on the title page; shelved under the Front Counter. 'A Garden of Earthly Delights' was a finalist for the 1968 National Book Award for Fiction. 1357162. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Synopsis

Joyce Carol Oates's Wonderland Quartet comprises four remarkable novels that explore social class in America and the inner lives of young Americans. In A Garden of Earthly Delights, Oates presents one of her most memorable heroines, Clara Walpole, the beautiful daughter of Kentucky-born migrant farmworkers. Desperate to rise above her haphazard existence of violence and poverty, determined not to repeat her mother's life, Clara struggles for independence by way of her relationships with four very different men: her father, a family man turned itinerant laborer, smoldering with resentment; the mysterious Lowry, who rescues Clara as a teenager and offers her the possibility of love; Revere, a wealthy landowner who provides Clara with stability; and Swan, Clara's son, who bears the psychological and spiritual burden of his mother's ambition.A masterly work from a writer with "the uncanny ability to give us a cinemascopic vision of her America" (National Review), A Garden of Earthly Delights is the opening stanza in what would become one of the most powerful and engrossing story arcs in literature.A Garden of Earthly Delights is the first novel in the Wonderland Quartet. The books that complete this acclaimed series, Expensive People, them, and Wonderland, are also available from the Modern Library.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Bookseller
Second Story Books, ABAA US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
1357162
Title
A GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS [SIGNED]
Author
Oates, Joyce Carol
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used
Quantity Available
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Edition
First Edition, First Printing
Publisher
The Vanguard Press, Inc
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1966

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