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Them
by Oates, Joyce Carol
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0814906680
- ISBN 13
- 9780814906682
- Seller
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GIG HARBOR, Washington, United States
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About This Item
New York: Vanguard Press, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Early novel and National Book Award winner from Joyce Carol Oates. First edition, first printing, with bookplate signed by the author attached to ffep. Very good book with a couple small stains to page block edge, lightly bumped corners, and toning to edges of boards. Very good first state jacket shows some light chipping at spine ends and upper rear corne, and a few scuffs to front panel. Original price of 6.95 in tact, and jacket is protected in mylar.
Synopsis
Joyce Carol Oates is an American author born in 1938. Her novel, Them , was chosen as a National Book Award winner in 1970. The story is set in the turbulent ‘60’s and is Maureen Wendall’s struggle to survive and rise above the poverty and social straits into which she is born. She has been traumatized by her alcoholic father and also by her murderous younger brother. The reality of the families’ situation creeps up on them slowly and without realizing it, they find that a younger generation is exhibiting the same tendencies as the previous. A passionate storyteller, Oates depicts a family in peril and with fabulous perception, captivates the reader.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peruse the Stacks
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2867
- Title
- Them
- Author
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0814906680
- ISBN 13
- 9780814906682
- Publisher
- Vanguard Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
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- Spine
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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