# A Fair Maiden

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- Book: [A Fair Maiden](https://www.bookquiver.com/joyce-carol-oates/a-fair-maiden) ([A Fair Maiden.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/joyce-carol-oates/a-fair-maiden.md))
- Authors: [Joyce Carol Oates](https://www.bookquiver.com/joyce-carol-oates)
- Publisher: quercus
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-4916-695-9
- Published: 2010-09-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Young and innocent, 15-year-old Katya Spivak strikes up a friendship with the silver haired, elegant, and much older Marcus Kidder. His life couldn't be more different from her own drab, working class existence - or more enticing. His beautiful home, classical music and lavish gifts all serve to hide something far more sinister . . . By degrees, almost imperceptibly, something changes, and posing for Mr Kidder's new painting isn't the light-hearted endeavour it once was. What does he really want from her? And how far will he go to get it?