JOYCE CAROL OATES in Exile / Exile Editions

Toronto, Ontario: Toronto, ON: Exile Editions, 1990, 1st Edition, First Printing , 1990. ------------( 1st Printing of the First Edition ) ---hardcover, an exlibrary copy that looks quite nice, the usual library marks and labels but contained to the front blank endpaper, library stamp on fore edge and upper edge of text block, pulls to the black paper on the verso of each board from an old jacket protector, ---that old jacket protector has kept the dustjacket very tidy, overall a close to near Fine dustjacket with a bit of running, no library marks or stickers on the jacket, ---"Joyce Carol Oates, the outstanding American novelist and short-story writer, has been appearing every year in Exile, the literary quarterly published in Toronto, since 1973. ---Oates in Exile is a collection of sixteen of these stories, some classically shaped, some in the form of “miniature narratives” — as Ms. Oates has come to call her short short fictions. ---They have all her range of tone and temper, fugitive lives that seem so strange in their intense ordinariness, driven lives haunted by the insidious stillness of another self lives that always seem on the verge of eruption. These stories, even when close to reverie, are peopled by characters, one person in relation with another, and therefore they are always charged by drama, and give the oldest and boldest of pleasures, a tale well told. ---Joyce Carol Oates has provided a preface, describing her admiration for and relationship with Exile, and placing these stories in the development of her work."---, ---this contains: Introduction; One Flesh; Poor Lizzie; Two Doors; The Lover; Desire; The Call; Mercury, Venus, Earth; My Madman; Immortal Longings; An Old Fashioned Love Story; The Insomniac; The Quarrel; Birds of Night; The Ebony Casket; Train, ---from the front flap: Oates in Exile is a collection of short stories, some classically shaped in the form of miniature narratives -as JoyceCarol Oates has come to call her short short fiction. These sixteen stories first appeared, over a period of fifteen years, in Exile, the literary quarterly published in Toronto. They have all the range of tone and temper, fugitive lives that seem so strange in their intense ordinariness, driven lives haunted by the insidious stillness of another 'self' - lives that always seem on the verge of eruption. These stories, even when close to reverie, are peopled by characters, one person in relation with another, and therefore they are always charged by drama, and give the oldest and boldest of pleasures, a tale well told., any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo. ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///---size is approximate(generally within 1/8 inch)---). First Edition. Hard Cover. Good (see description)/Near Fine (see description). Illus. by Lou Luciani cover Design (front) / David Annesley Cover Art (rear). 6.25w x 9.25h Inches. NOT Price Clipped.