Description
Near Fine dust jacket, minor soiling on spine. Author’s photo on back panel. Near Fine binding is orange cloth over boards, with gilt lettering. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 8.6″ tall x 5.7′ wide. First Edition.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
CROSSING THE BORDER is a new collection of short stories by one of North America’s fore\most literary figures. In this volume. individuals approach and sometimes cross borders— borders separating men from women, innocence from experience, one way of life from another. The scene is often set in Canada, the great land beyond the border of the United Sates so inadequately known by most Americans. Residing as she does in that country, Miss Oates writes with a sympathetic knowledge of the people on both sides of the border whose stories she tells with her matchless artistry
About the author (from the dust jacket)
JOYCE CAROL OATES was born in 1938 and grew up in the country outside Lockport, New York. She was graduated from Syracuse University in 1960 and received her Master’s Degree in English from the University of Wisconsin From the start of her writing career Miss Oates has earned high literary awards, among them a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1967-68, the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and just last year she was honored with the Lotos Club Award of Merit. For her novel Them she won the National Book A ward in 1970. Her novel. Do With Me What You Will, was a major selection of the Literary Guild of America, and The Assassins, her most recent novel, was an alternate selection of the Guild, In addition to her seven novels, Miss Oates has had published two volumes of critical essays and four volumes of poetry; four of her plays have been produced in New York. Her stories have been widely anthologized in literary and magazines mass-circulation magazines.
