{"product_id":"with-shuddering-fall-9780062795717","title":"With Shuddering Fall","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first novel from \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e-bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a thrilling, dark tale of family, revenge, and two souls intertwined by love and violence--now back in print for fans of America's most prolific storyteller.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten when Joyce Carol Oates was in her early twenties, and first published in 1964, \u003cem\u003eWith Shuddering Fall\u003c\/em\u003e is her powerful debut novel, the first of five new Oates reprints from Ecco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing the turbulent story of two lovers who discover themselves mortal enemies, the author explores the struggle for dominance in erotic relationships that has become a predominant theme in her work, as well as the perils of patriarchal inheritance, and the ripple-effects of emotional loss in adolescence. The result is an unsentimental yet sympathetic rendering of a disastrous love affair in which hatred is nearly as powerful as love, and a yearning for destruction is an abiding and insatiable passion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscover what prompted the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e to compare this young writer's debut to Shirley Jackson's famous short story, \"The Lottery.\" Readers looking for a place to start in Joyce Carol Oates's vast catalogue will be intrigued by the sheer narrative force of the young author, and her willingness to anatomize the darkest recesses of humanity in a search for redemption and resolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOates, Joyce Carol:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJoyce 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 2019 Jerusalem Prize, 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 \u003cem\u003eWe Were the Mulvaneys\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eBlonde\u003c\/em\u003e, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eThe Falls\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50409558638866,"sku":"9780062795717","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ced204b8-2aff-48df-920b-7e6ed627cea6.jpg?v=1729290481","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/with-shuddering-fall-9780062795717","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}