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"Because it is Bitter, and Because It is My Heart"
by Oates, Joyce Carol
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0525248609
- ISBN 13
- 9780525248606
- Seller
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Canton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dutton , 1990. "First Edition, First Printing". Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Red Cloth and Royal Blue Board Covers with gilt lettering and dropped out lettering on silver field on spine; lower book edge has a remainder slash; White Endpapers; free front endpaper has a light erasure mark at top edge; book interior is clean and tight; 8vo; 405 pages; dustjacket is protected by a mylar wrapper and is clean and bright; rear dustjacket panel has light rubbing and tiny crease at corners and spine gutter corners; top and bottom edges of front cover is very lightly rubbed
1.68#; P3; Old #266; Acq 6/93
1.68#; P3; Old #266; Acq 6/93
Synopsis
Joyce Carol Oates adds to her extraordinary body of work with this stunning novel of violence and love. At the heart of the story are two people, Iris Courtney, who is white, and handsome Jinx Fairchild, the black basketball player who, in protecting Iris, kills a white man. Iris is the only witness to the crime. The two of them are growing up in the early 1950s in a New York industrial town where racial boundaries keep people apart—or bring them together in explosive scenes of fear or desire. The secret link between Iris and Jinx is not only their attraction to each other, but a murder … and a bond of passion and guilt is formed between them. How this one irrevocable, tragic act shapes their lives and alters their destinies becomes Joyce Carol Oates’ finest, emotion-packed novel—a work the critics are calling a masterpiece, the best work of America’s best writer of contemporary realism.
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- Bookseller
- Charing Cross Road Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20150164
- Title
- "Because it is Bitter, and Because It is My Heart"
- Author
- Oates, Joyce Carol
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- "First Edition, First Printing"
- ISBN 10
- 0525248609
- ISBN 13
- 9780525248606
- Publisher
- Dutton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - General;
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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