Description
Very Good+ dust jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added. Title on front and spine lettering in white, decorated with purple. Very slight aging on back of dust jacket. Photo of author on back panel, slight discoloration. Near Fine condition binding is purple cloth over boards. Gilt design on front, gilt stamping on spine. “1” is present on the number line on copyright page which is the designation of first edition. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 8.3 tall x 5.7 wide”.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
From the prize-winning novelist and author of the recent highly successful The Goddess and Other Women comes a new book of stories that shows still a different facet of Miss Oates’s incredible talent: another milieu, characters quite other than those she has so magnificently drawn in her previous work. As Miss Oates writes in a Note to the book, these stories seem to have been written through the influence of an unknown, a Portuguese, whom she calls Fernandes. Although Miss Oates has never been to Portugal, she captures the atmosphere of persons and places precisely, writing of a world she has never known but that she sees almost clairvoyantly
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 acclaim and countless literary awards, among them a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1967-68 and the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Ju this year she was honored with the Lotos Club Award of Merit and became a member of the National Society of Literature and the Arts. For her novel them she won the National Book Award in 1970. Her most recent novel, Do With What You Will received nationwide praise and was a major selection of the Literary Guild of America. In addition to her six novels, Miss Oates has had published two volumes of critical essays and three volumes of poetry; four of her plays have been produced in New York.
Her many stories have been widely anthologized in literary and mass-circulation magazines. Those in THE POISONED KISS and other stories from the Portuguese add still a new dimension to Miss Oates’s art.
