Marya: A Life - Softcover

Oates, Professor Of Humanities Joyce Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062269216 ISBN 13: 9780062269218

Publisher: Ecco Press, 2014

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2014-03-18 Pages: 352 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins A deeply intimate psychological portrait of a young womans tragic childhood. her reinvention as a successful young artist in the literary circles of 1950s New York City. and her struggle to understand and overcome the trauma of her past.Growing up in the confines of Innisfail. a bleak town in upstate New York. bright and curious Marya endures abandonment. betrayal. and loneliness. A college scholarship offers escape. taking her to New York City. where she makes a name for herself in academic and literary circles. But success cannot overcome the damage of her childhood. pain that haunts Marya's personal. professional. and romantic relationships. and has left her unmoored.Psychologically nuanced. rich in insight and emotional complexity. told with the unsettling power of Joyce Carol Oates's g...

About this title

Product Description:

Successful author and famous intellectual Marya Knauer did not always occupy such a secure and comfortable position in life. Her memories of her childhood in Innisfail, New York are by turns romantic and traumatic. The early violent death of her father and abandonment by her mother have left her with a permanent sense of dislocation and loss. After decades apart, Marya becomes determined to find the mother who gave her away. In searching for her past, Marya changes her present life more than she could ever have imagined. Vividly evoking the natural beauty of rural upstate New York, and the complex emotions of a woman artist, Marya: A Life is one of Joyce Carol Oates's most deeply personal and fully-realized novels.

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 Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0062269216
• ISBN 13: 9780062269218
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352