Joan Williams. First edition (stated). Dust Jacket: Near Fine. An unclipped jacket with original price $4.00 on inside flap. In a mylar protective wrapper, with an absolutely beautiful jacket designed by Antonio Frasconi. Corner of flyleaf page has been clipped. There is some chipping on bottom of the spine. Hardcover: Very Good+ New York: Atheneum, 1961. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. No writing or markings in this sturdy edition, 248 pp.
Joan Williams (1928-2004) story is a haunting and beautiful tale, richly interfused with humor and sharp, unsettling insights into the human predicament.
This is a beautiful first edition of the authors first book. Winner of the John P. Marquand First Novel Award. William Stryon said this about the book: 'The Morning and the Evening is indisputably the work of a greatly gifted writer. It is a haunting and beautiful tale, richly interfused with humor and sharp, unsettling insights into the human predicament. Not the least of Miss Williams' talents is her perfectly focused rendering of the Southern landscape, which comes through with the clear simplicity of Flaubert's Normandy, and with the same sensuous feel of reality.
During the authors time at Bard College, she had a relationship with author William Faulkner, "a relationship that overshadowed her own successful career as a novelist."
