BLACK DAHLIA & WHITE ROSE: STORIES by Joyce Carol Oates SIGNED+DATED+NYC 1st/1st

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Signed+Dated+NYC , Brand New, First Edition, First Printing, Hardcover/Dust Jacket, List: $24.99 Black Dahlia & White Rose Stories by Joyce Carol Oates Oates is a recipient of the National Book Award, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, and the National Humanities Medal, our government's highest civilian honor for the arts. 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. 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. In 2003 she received the Commonwealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature, and in 2006 she received the Chicago Tribune Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the 2010 recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award. First Edition, First Printing, hand SIGNED/DATED/PLACED by the author, in my presence, to full title page. No inscription; full signature + 6 Oct. 2012 + NYC only. From an event at The New Yorker Festival in New York City on October 6, 2012. BONUSES: The complete Program Guide (photo #10) from The New Yorker Festival + a copy of an interview with Ms. Oates regarding this book are included. Please only bid if you will pay within five days of auction's end. All domestic sales of $25 or more will be wrapped and shipped in a box. Shipping & Handling for USPS Media Mail is $3.95 (includes Delivery C onfirmation) Shipping & Handling for USPS Priority Mail Flat Rate envelope is $6.95 (includes Delivery Confirmation) Shipping & Handling for USPS Priority Mail International Flat Rate envelope is $17.95 I provide the highest quality author signed, first edition books. 100% authentic guaranteed - This is my COA "Certificate of Authenticity". I won't sell any signed book that I'm not 100% sure is hand signed by the author. I attended this Joyce Carol Oates book signing event at The New Yorker Festival in New York City on October 6, 2012. I'm not happy unless you are! Please email any questions. Thanks! Book Description Release Date: September 11, 2012 A wildly inventive new collection of stories by Joyce Carol Oates that charts the surprising ways in which the world we think we know can unexpectedly reveal its darker contoursThe New York Times has hailed Joyce Carol Oates as "a dangerous writer in the best sense of the word, one who takes risks almost obsessively with energy and relish." Black Dahlia & White Rose , a collection of eleven previously uncollected stories, showcases the keen rewards of Oates's relentless brio and invention. In one beautifully honed story after another, Oates explores the menace that lurks at the edges of and intrudes upon even the seemingly safest of lives—and maps with rare emotional acuity the transformational cost of such intrusions. Unafraid to venture into no-man's-lands both real and surreal, Oates takes readers deep into dangerous territory, from a maximum-security prison—vividly delineating the heartbreaking and unexpected atmosphere of such an institution—to the inner landscapes of two beautiful and mysteriously doomed young women in 1940s Los Angeles: Elizabeth Short, otherwise known as the Black Dahlia, victim of a long-unsolved and particularly brutal murder, and her roommate Norma Jeane Baker, soon to become Marilyn Monroe. Whether exploring the psychological compulsion of the wife of a well-to-do businessman who is ravished by, and elopes with, a lover who is not what he seems or the uneasily duplicitous relationships between young women and their parents, Black Dahlia & White Rose explores the compelling intertwining of dread and desire, the psychic pull and trauma of domestic life, ... read more

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