Lavish signed limited edition of Oates's "charnel house of Gothic paraphernalia" (Wolff), drawn in part from her observation of the 1967 Detroit riots while an English professor at the University of Detroit.
Fine.
Price: $50.00
"A person, a girl, imagines the mirror will show no reflection to her. So she does not dare look."
Includes a new introduction by Oates, a "special message to subscribers" gently clarifying her original 1969 author's note: "If [Jules] and Maureen and Loretta are to be located anywhere, it is in my imagination: just as the ghostly 'Joyce Carol Oates' who appears, indirectly, obliquely, in the narrative, is a fictional character in no significant way like myself."
Read more: Wolff, "Gothic City," Newsweek; Wolff, "Miss Oates Loves To Splash Blood On Us," The New York Times.
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1979. 8.5'' x 6''. Original gilt-tooled burgundy morocco. All edges gilt. Grey silk endpapers and bookmark. 601, [1] pages. Signed by Oates on second blank leaf. Illustrated by Steven Stroud. Minimal edgewear.
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