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The Maytrees
By Dillard, Annie
The Maytrees
In this powerfully moving novel, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dillard displays penetrating insight into the human condition with a remarkable story about the unknowable, unbreakable bonds of love and family.
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Authors:
Dillard, Annie
Copyright:
2007
Format:
Paperback
GTIN13:
9780061239540
ISBN10:
0061239542
Page Count:
240
Dimensions:
5.54x0.64x8.04
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Strand Notes
It would seem that at some point everyone passes through Provincetown, MA. For Lou Bigelow, who was doing just that, it was an afternoon bike ride through town which changed her life forever. In "The Maytrees", Pulitzer prize-winner, Annnie Dillard, introduces readers to the world of Toby and Lou and their Bohemian friends as they spend their days alonng the tip of Cape Cod. The soft and graceful voice of the prose is reminiscent of her previous works in its rich desccriptions and effortless progression of action- in short, it is a true joy to discover what Dillard lays out for you to find. This novel, which explores "nature's vastness and nearness," is not to be missed.
Description
"Brilliant. . . . A shimmering meditation on the ebb and flow of love." --New York Times
"In her elegant, sophisticated prose, Dillard tells a tale of intimacy, loss and extraordinary friendship and maturity against a background of nature in its glorious color and caprice. The Maytrees is an intelligent, exquisite novel." -- The Washington Times
Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty. As he courts Lou, just out of college, her stillness draws him. Hands-off, he hides his serious wooing, and idly shows her his poems.
In spare, elegant prose, Dillard traces the Maytrees' decades of loving and longing. They live cheaply among the nonconformist artists and writers that the bare tip of Cape Cod attracts. When their son Petie appears, their innocent Bohemian friend Deary helps care for him. But years later it is Deary who causes the town to talk.
In this moving novel, Dillard intimately depicts willed bonds of loyalty, friendship, and abiding love. She presents nature's vastness and nearness. Warm and hopeful, The Maytrees is the surprising capstone of Dillard's original body of work.
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