First Love: A Gothic Tale
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| File:FirstLoveOates.jpg First edition | |
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Barry Moser |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Gothic novel |
| Publisher | Ecco Press |
Publication date | 1996 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 85 pp |
| ISBN | 0-88001-457-1 |
| OCLC | 33165822 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3565.A8 F57 1996 |
| Preceded by | Zombie |
| Followed by | We Were the Mulvaneys |
First Love: A Gothic Tale is a novella by American novelist and essayist Joyce Carol Oates and illustrator Barry Moser. It tells the story of Josie S_____, a girl who goes to stay at her aunt's mansion in upstate New York. While there, she has an incestuous relationship with her cousin, Jared. The novella deals with two of the more common recurring themes in Oates' work: "teenage initiation and perplexing and problematic love."[1]
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- ↑ Loeb, Monica. "'Useless as Moths' Wings' Oates Revision of Checkov's 'The Lady with the Pet Dog.'" Literary Marriages: A Study of Intertexuality in a Series of Short Stories by Joyce Carol Oates, pp. 87-104. Bern: Peter Lang, 2002.
