By the north gate
Joyce Carol Oates (Author), Vanguard Press (Publisher)
"[Oates's] stories concern themselves with problems and situations that youth knows: the conflict between the hope of the young and the pessimism of the old; the realization of the injustices of the civilized order; the horror of the senseless cruelty condoned by society; the reality of evil, existing even in the good and the loving; brutality without motivation -- the ultimate horror; the senseless machinations of fate that condition all of life. And above all, man standing at the north gate -- the boundary between civilization and wilderness, both borne in his heart -- and striving toward the victory of which he is capable."--Dust jacket flap
Print Book, English, 1963
The Vanguard Press, Inc., New York, 1963