An epic novel of the rough, tough and wild 'garden' of America - the back country which hosts a brutal way of life for immigrants. This is the jungle where men are violent and goaded to kill, where women have to learn to look after themselves, and where love is something to be wary of... 'This savage account of the child Clara...is impressive in its truth and power...where THE GRAPES OF WRATH was angrily sentimental, Miss Oates is calmly bitter...A powerful narrative engine drives the story along' - SUNDAY TIMES 'Joyce ...
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An epic novel of the rough, tough and wild 'garden' of America - the back country which hosts a brutal way of life for immigrants. This is the jungle where men are violent and goaded to kill, where women have to learn to look after themselves, and where love is something to be wary of... 'This savage account of the child Clara...is impressive in its truth and power...where THE GRAPES OF WRATH was angrily sentimental, Miss Oates is calmly bitter...A powerful narrative engine drives the story along' - SUNDAY TIMES 'Joyce Carol Oates is a good novelist in the ranging, naturalistic American tradition...but A GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS is inward-looking enough to bring Miss Oates home to the novelist's true concern...it is this human reality that makes the book so valuable' - THE GUARDIAN
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Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. Authors 4th book: scarce review copy with printed and typed notice from The Vanguard Press with information about the book addressed to "The Literary Editor" laid in. Inscribed " To Lenny--Joyce Carol Oates". Green cloth with white title on spine. Interior of text is tight, clean and intact. Red endpapers. [8, 440pp]. Small light stain on bottom front corner. Dust jacket has light edge wear & is protected in a mylar cover. Literature; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 440 pages.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 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.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author 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' second novel and the first in her Wonderland quartet.
