Eva's Man
New York: Bantam Books, 1978. 1st Mass Market Paperback Edition. 12mo, publisher’s stiff illustrated paper wraps, all edges stained in yellow.
First mass market paperback edition of Gayl Jones’s second novel (originally published in hardcover in 1976). Jones was initially discovered by Toni Morrison, an editor at Random House at the time. While Jones published novels and short story collections after the success of her debut Corregidora, her subsequent books were met with ambivalence by critics, and she receded from public view. Also acquired and edited by Morrison and published within a year of Corregidora, Eva's Man presents a first-person portrait narrated by Eva Medina Canada, a woman recalling her encounters with sexual abuse and emotional violence through fragmented memories while detained for the brutal murder of her husband. Light toning and soiling to wraps. Near fine. Item #13436
$40.00