Book summaryJosie S is 11 when she comes with her mother, Delia, to live with her great aunt, Esther, and her cousin, a Presbyterian seminarian named Jared. Distant and preoccupied, Jared intrigues Josie. One summer afternoon, she encounters him at the riverbank behind her great aunt's house, and enters a world of secrets and unnatural desires. Media reviews"Oates at her best--and a happy reminder that she remains one of our foremost chroniclers of childhood's awakening and woman's fate." |
First Love: A Gothic Taleby Oates, Joyce Carol and Berliner, Janet (editors)First Trade
Book description: New York, New York, U.S.A.: Ecco Pr, 1997 First printing this edition. Pristine condition. Stark tale of child abuse, illustrated with brooding Moser woodcuts. 08/09 fc. First Trade. Trade Paperback. New/No Jacket, as Issued. Illus. by Moser, Barry. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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