I'll Take You There - Hardcover

Oates, Joyce Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060501170 ISBN 13: 9780060501174

Publisher: Ecco Pr, 2002

Synopsis

In a novel set in the early 1960s, a young white woman falls in love with a black philosophy student and then must face a person from her past whom she believed had died. 50,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

'Oates' precise and inspired writing is close to witchcraft.' Jeanne Moreau

'This intense character study becomes a testament to spiritual resilience. It is an excellent addition to Oates' formidable canon.' Daily Telegraph

'Maybe, just maybe, the Great American Novelist is a woman.' The Herald

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco Pr
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0060501170
• ISBN 13: 9780060501174
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288