“Once you own things you have to be afraid of them. Of losing them.”
Oates traces the struggles of Clara Walpole, a poor migrant’s daughter whose pursuit of love, survival, and upward mobility exposes the harsh realities of class and ambition in America.
Oates, Joyce Carol. A Garden of Earthly Delights. New York: Vanguard Press, 1967. 440 pp.
First Edition, first printing. Hardcover. Octavo.
Good condition copy with crushing at spine ends, bumping to corners, edge wear, slight cracking of hinge at title page, and toning, in good condition dust jacket with edge wear, light chipping, bottom 1/4” of tail trimmed, and toning—in new dust jacket cover. Author’s signature on title page.
