With Shuddering Fall

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With Shuddering Fall is the first novel by Joyce Carol Oates. It was published by Vanguard Press in 1964.

The novel tells the story of two people, Shar and Karen, and their disastrous love affair.

Like much of Oates' early work, With Shuddering Fall is currently out of print. It was last published in 1971 by Fawcett.

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"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil." — Nietzsche