Marya: A Life (G.K. Hall Large Print Book Series) - Hardcover

Oates, Joyce Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816141789 ISBN 13: 9780816141784

Publisher: G K Hall & Co, 1987

Synopsis

Presents a portrait of a modern woman in search of self-understanding and self-fulfillment

About this title

About the Author:

Joyce Carol Oates is a recipient of the National Medal of Humanities, the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Book Award, and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and has been several times nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys, Blonde, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and the New York Times bestseller The Falls, which won the 2005 Prix Femina. Her most recent novel is A Book of American Martyrs. She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1978.

From the Back Cover:

Marya Knauer is a famous author and member of the intellectual elite. She is, by turns, admired, envied, and resented. She is also a woman haunted. Haunted by early memories of violence and abandonment. Haunted by painful feelings of longing and loss. Now Marya is about to embark on a search for her past--and for the mother who gave her away more than a quarter of a century before.... Vividly evoking the beauty of rural New York, the shattered reflections of childhood, and the complex emotions of a female artist, Marya: A Life is one of Joyce Carol Oates's most deeply personal and brilliantly observed novels.

About this edition

• Publisher: G K Hall & Co
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0816141789
• ISBN 13: 9780816141784
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 424