First love : a Gothic tale / Joyce Carol Oates ; designed and illustrated by Barry Moser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-

Contributor:

Moser, Barry.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cousins--Fiction.

Cousins.

New York (State)--Fiction.

New York (State).

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938- (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-4)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-4)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 85 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Manufacture:

Distributed by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue.

Place of Publication:

[Hopewell, NJ] : The Ecco Press ; [New York]: [ [1996]

Summary:

Josie S- has come with her mother Delia to live in her great-aunt Esther Burkhardt's house in upstate New York. Also living there is Josie's cousin, Jared, Jr., on leave from the Presbyterian seminary. Preoccupied with his studies, impeccably dressed in his starched white shirts, distant and mysterious, Jared, Jr. is an intriguing figure to Josie's curious and impressionable young mind. One summer afternoon, when Josie encounters Jared, Jr. at the riverbank behind the Burkhardt house, dark secrets are shared between them as an unnatural love blooms. A moody sense of foreboding grips the reader from page one as religion, whispers of dark family secrets, violations of trust and virginity, bad blood, and a hint of incest all haunt the landscape of this startling tale of divided family loyalties, psychological manipulation, and the tangled strands of love and fear in the mind of a young girl groping for her way in one fractured American family.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-4 have dustjackets retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1-4 have autograph of Joyce Carol Oates.

ISBN:

0880014571

OCLC:

33165822