The Maytrees: A Novel
by Dillard, Annie
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- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0061239534
- ISBN 13
- 9780061239533
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Synopsis
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. Lou takes up painting. 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 nature's vastness and nearness. She presents willed bonds of loyalty, friendship, and abiding love. Warm and hopeful, The Maytrees is the surprising capstone of Annie Dillard's original body of work. 0607
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- Bookseller
- More Than Words Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOS-I-08i-01258
- Title
- The Maytrees: A Novel
- Author
- Dillard, Annie
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0061239534
- ISBN 13
- 9780061239533
- Publisher
- Harper
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- June 12, 2007
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