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Poet and Pulitzer Prize-winning memoirist Annie Dillard tells the lyrical, treacherous, bittersweet love story of Lou and Toby. The two fall desperately in love and have a child together, but as their personalities reveal themselves, their marriage twists asunder. Decades later, their lives cross again, and they must navigate the inscrutable facets of their entangled feelings., 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. 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 Pete appears, their innocent Bohemian friend Deary helps care for him. These people are all loving, and ironic. As Dillard intimately depicts nature's vastness and nearness, she presents willed bonds of loyalty, friendship, and abiding love.--From publisher description.
| Size | | Length: | 216 pages | | Height: | 8.8 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 13.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Dillard's portraits are painted with stark, radiant strokes lightened by passages of wry humour. Her writing often has a lyrical beauty but it is also uncompromising; when she edited her original manuscript down from 1,400 pages to 200, she did not do away with the obscure words. Yet her style is accessible and the writing compelling."
(01/04/2008)
"An anthropologist's eye and a poet's precision distinguish this superbly written novel....The compact, elliptical narrative will continue to pervade the reader's consciousness long after the novel ends." (starred review)
(03/01/2007)
"Each paragraph of Dillard's novel is a thing of beauty."
(06/15/2007)
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