You Must Remember This.

OATES, Joyce Carol.

Item Number: 146858

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1987.

Signed limited first edition of this gripping novel, privately printed exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Octavo, Smyth-sewn and bound in full top-grain leather specially processed for fine books by the Cromwell Leather Company with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in four compartments within raised bands, gilt decoration to the front and rear panels, all edges gilt, silk ribbon laid in, marbled endpapers, double-page frontispiece illustration by Milt Kobayashi specially commissioned by The Franklin Press for this first edition. In near fine condition with a small abrasion to the bottom edge.

Joyce Carol Oates' eighteenth novel 'You Must Remember This' is a vivid reproduction of life in the 1950s, focusing a light on the Stevick family, caught in the throes of passion - embittered, patriotic, and sexual. "Like boxing, Ms. Oates' stories are about people struggling with one another; they are about the triumph and the failure of the will, and about the disappointment' (Barbara Cady, Publisher).