A Garden Of Earthly Delights
by Oates, Joyce Carol
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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New York: The Vanguard Press, 1967. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the front flyleaf in the year of publication: "For Gunter -- / With best wishes / Joyce Carol Oates / 9-22-67." Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction (1968), and winner of the M.L. Rosenthal Award (1968). The author's second novel.
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York NY: The Vanguard Press, 1967. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1967 Vanguard Press FIRST edition of Oates's 4th novel. A more than decent copy in VG/VG condition and is **SIGNED** directly on the title page. The HB has minor fading along the edges and inside there is a tape stain running… Read more about this item Item Price
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E-183: Vanguard Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Vanguard Press, New York. 1967. 440 pgs. Signed by Joyce Carol Oates on the title page. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks,… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Vanguard Press, 1967. [1967]. Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket. Bound in full green cloth. The spine is stamped in green and white. Octavo. Red endpapers and topstain. 440pps. The edges of the cloth are faintly faded and the fore-edge has two small soil-marks. Also, there is a slight bump to the upper front tip. Otherwise clean,… Read more about this item Item Price
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NY: Vanguard Press, 1967. First edition, first prnt. Signed by Oates on the title page. Beginning toning on the front board topedge and spine edges and tiny soil spot on rear board; dustjacket with edgewear, mostly at corners and the spine topedge and faint toning to spine. Very Good copy in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Oates'… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Vanguard Press, 1967. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Corners very slightly bumped, still fine in fine dust jacket. Advance Review Copy with publisher printed slip and promotional photograph of the author laid in. Warmly Inscribed by the author: "For George Bixby with gratitude and affection. Joyce 1/21/69." The author's fourth book. Item Price
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