Book #18808

Marya, A Life - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Joyce Carol Oates
Book #18808 Marya, A Life - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Joyce Carol Oates.
Marya, A Life - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Binding: Full-Leather
Book Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1986.

A special Limited first edition/first printing preceding the trade edition, SIGNED by author Joyce Carol Oates, Unread Fine condition.

Marya Knauer was not always having a secure and comfortable position in life. Her father's early death and abandonment by her mother have left her with a sense of dislocation and loss early in her childhood. After decades, Marya becomes determined to find the mother who gave her away and changes her present life more than she ever imagined.

This outstanding book is bound in genuine leather and features gilded, sewn in pages and ribbon marker, simply superb quality, Franklin Library at its best; 8vo; [xviii], 310, [2] pages; Signed by Author.

Price: $60.00

Author Bio

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American author and the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University, where she has taught since 1978.Her first novel, With Shuddering Fall, was publishes when she was twenty-six years old. Her novel Them received the National Book Award in 1970. Oates has also written under the pseudonyms "Rosamond Smith" and "Lauren Kelly."

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