Skip to content

The Love Eaters and The Kiss of Kin (Dual Edition) (The Mary Lee Settle
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different

The Love Eaters and The Kiss of Kin (Dual Edition) (The Mary Lee Settle Collection) Paperback - 1995

by Mary Lee Settle

  • Used
  • Good
  • Paperback
Drop Ship Order

Description

University of South Carolina Press, 1995-09-01. Paperback. Good.
Used - Good
NZ$17.67
FREE Shipping to USA Standard delivery: 5 to 10 days
More Shipping Options
Ships from Ergodebooks (Texas, United States)

Details

About Ergodebooks Texas, United States

Biblio member since 2005
Seller rating: This seller has earned a 3 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.

Our goal is to provide best customer service and good condition books for the lowest possible price. We are always honest about condition of book. We list book only by ISBN # and hence exact book is guaranteed.

Terms of Sale:

We have 30 day return policy.

Browse books from Ergodebooks

From the publisher

The novel that launched Settle's outstanding career, The Love Eaters is an acid satire of bedroom and community tragedy. A wealthy, small-town theatrical group finds itself at the direction of a wheelchair-bound man whose designs extend beyond the stage. As he begins to lose control, so do his players, revealing appetites they scarcely knew that had.

The Kiss of Kin, Settle's second and highly acclaimed novel, centers on the funeral, and last testament of Anna Mary Passmore. Drawn back to the Soutern homeplace, members of the Passmore clan--all of whom nurse visions that the matriarch's bequests will solve their problems--grapple with the various ties that bind them and with the disturbing appearance of an unexpected heir.

Pulbished together for the first time, these novels offer compelling tales as well as a sample of Settle's early writing.

From the rear cover

The novel that launched Mary Lee Settle's outstanding career, The Love Eaters is an acid satire of bedroom and community tragedy. A wealthy, small-town theatrical group finds itself at the direction of a man whose designs extend beyond the stage. As he begins to lose control, so do his players, revealing appetites they scarcely knew they had. Settle's second novel, the highly acclaimed Kiss of Kin, centers on the funeral and last testament of Anna Mary Passmore. Drawn back to the Southern homeplace, members of the Passmore clan - all of whom nurse visions that the matriarch's bequests will solve their problems - grapple with the various ties that bind them and with the disturbing appearance of an unexpected heir. Published together for the first time, these novels offer compelling tales from Settle's early career.

Media reviews

Citations

  • Library Journal, 04/01/1996, Page 124
  • New York Times, 10/29/1995, Page 52

About the author

Mary Lee Settle's major work is The Beulah Quintet, and her Blood Tie was the winner of the National Book Award. Settle has received an Award for Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and awards from the Southern Regional Council, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Merrill Foundation. She is the founder of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The author, most recently, of Choices, Settle's backlist is published with new introductions by the author by the University of South Carolina Press. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.