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- Autorius: Mary Lee Settle
- Leidėjas: University of South Carolina Press
- ISBN-10: 1570031495
- ISBN-13: 9781570031496
- Formatas: 14.1 x 20.4 x 1.7 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Kalba: Anglų
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A dissection of family existence at its most corrosive
In this moving and brilliant narrative of doomed love, Mary Lee Settle tells of a triangular affair set in the small town of Canona, West Virginia. The novel's narrator, a thirty-five-year-old widow and writer, returns from a self-imposed European exile to find her hometown much as she left it decades ago. One thing does change upon her arrival, however; she takes Charley Bland, Canona's most eligible bachelor and the object of her schoolgirl crush, as her lover. The third person in the profane trinity is Charley's mother, a woman who believes no female worthy of her son. Mrs. Bland serves to fuel the lovers' creativity as they arrange clandestine meetings. With trademark skill and wit, Settle spins a bittersweet story in which she artfully reveals the mores of Canona's closed, upper-class society and of its less prosperous underculture.
- Autorius: Mary Lee Settle
- Leidėjas: University of South Carolina Press
- ISBN-10: 1570031495
- ISBN-13: 9781570031496
- Formatas: 14.1 x 20.4 x 1.7 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Kalba: Anglų
A dissection of family existence at its most corrosive
In this moving and brilliant narrative of doomed love, Mary Lee Settle tells of a triangular affair set in the small town of Canona, West Virginia. The novel's narrator, a thirty-five-year-old widow and writer, returns from a self-imposed European exile to find her hometown much as she left it decades ago. One thing does change upon her arrival, however; she takes Charley Bland, Canona's most eligible bachelor and the object of her schoolgirl crush, as her lover. The third person in the profane trinity is Charley's mother, a woman who believes no female worthy of her son. Mrs. Bland serves to fuel the lovers' creativity as they arrange clandestine meetings. With trademark skill and wit, Settle spins a bittersweet story in which she artfully reveals the mores of Canona's closed, upper-class society and of its less prosperous underculture.
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