First Love: A Gothic Tale

by Joyce Carol Oates

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Hopewell, New Jersey, US: The Ecco Press. Mint. 1996. First. Hardback copy. First Edition Stated. Maroon boards lettered in black on spine. Illustrated with seven black & white wood engravings by Barry Moser. A gothic tale of divided family loyalties, psychological manipulation, and the tangled strands of love and fear in the mind of a young girl. "«First Love» is a Gothic romance because it deals with taboo subjects: a child's romantic yearning for a relationship with a young man; a victim's enchantment with and devotion to an abuser. Such emotions are complicated - and they make people very uncomfortable. And the setting comes from the Gothic tradition: an isolated, forbidding house with family secrets." Interview excerpt by Joyce Carol Oates, courtesy of Ecco Press ~~~ Author(s): Joyce Carol Oates; Binding material: Cloth; Binding state: Original binding; Binding style: Full; Class: Hardback copy; Condition: Mint; Edition: First; Illustrated; Illustrator(s): Barry Moser; Jacket condition: Mint; Language: English; Pages: 88; Publication year: 1996; Size: 12mo. .

Book summary

Josie 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.

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