The triumph of the spider monkey / Joyce Carol Oates.

Title
  1. The triumph of the spider monkey / Joyce Carol Oates.
Published by
  1. Santa Barbara : Black Sparrow Press, 1976.
  2. ©1976
Author
  1. Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-

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Additional authors
  1. Martin, Barbara (Book designer)
  2. Gray, Earle
  3. Black Sparrow Press publisher.
  4. Mackintosh & Young printer.
  5. Edwards Brothers, Inc. printer.
Description
  1. 89 pages : portrait; 23 cm
Summary
  1. Abandoned as a baby in a bus station locker, shuttled from one abusive foster home and detention center to another, Bobbie Gotteson grew up angry, hurting, damaged. His hunger to succeed as a musician brought him across the country to Hollywood, but along with it came his seething rage, his paranoid delusions, and his capacity for acts of shocking violence.
Subject
  1. Mental illness > Fiction
  2. Violence > Fiction
  3. Anger > Fiction
  4. Orphans > Fiction
  5. Murder > Fiction
  6. Foster children > Fiction
  7. Foster home care > Fiction
  8. American fiction > 20th century
  9. Nouvelles américaines
  10. Short stories, American
  11. Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) > Fiction
Genre/Form
  1. Fictional Work
  2. Fiction
  3. Novellas
  4. Detective and mystery fiction
  5. Autographs (Provenance)
  6. Limitation statements (Publishing)
  7. Romans.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. "Printed November 1976 in Santa Barbara & Ann Arbor for the Black Sparrow Press by Mackintosh and Young & Edwards Brothers Inc. Design by Barbara Martin. This edition is published in paper wrappers; there are 1000 hardcover copies; & 350 copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray numbered & signed by the author.--Colophon.
Additional formats (note)
  1. Also issued online.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain