2003 1st edition "First Edition" stated; Harper Collins Publishers, New York; hardbound in wheat boards with red foil stamped lettering along spine; very good condition with unmarked pages; dust jacket very good but has one small ding - see pics.
 
Description -
Small Avalanches and Other Stories is a young adult collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates. It was her second young adult book and, as of January 2007, her only collection of short stories for young adults. It was published in 2003 by HarperTempest, an imprint of HarperCollins.
 
In a dozen mesmerizing short stories, 10 of which were previously published and three of which have won O. Henry Awards, Joyce Carol Oates's Small Avalanches and Other Stories features females on the brink of adulthood from different eras and locales, who find themselves in painful, even desperate, situations-many of them sexual. In ""Small Avalanches,"" Nancy is pursued by a strange man while walking down a Colorado road; in ""Capricorn,"" Melanie meets a soulmate online who takes a predatory interest in her cousin.
 
Oates often captures the essence of a character in a phrase: ""Everything about her had two sides to it, one for home and one for anywhere that was not home,"" she writes of the beautiful 15-year-old in ""Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"" (which served as inspiration for Sweet Talk, a film starring Treat Williams and Laura Dern).