Author: MAYNARD, Joyce
Title: At Home in the World: A Memoir
Description: New York, Picador, 1998. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 347pp. Pictorial endpapers. Fine/near fine. A tight and handsome first edition of this literary memoir about this writer's affair at age 18 with the 53-year-old J.D. Salinger. On the half-title page, Maynard pens "for Joyce" at the top in blue fineline, then draws a cartoonish smiling figure skater with arms aloft holding a flower; she does not sign, strangely, though her first name is incorporated into the inscription!.

Keywords: Literary Biography


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