The Maytrees Fine hardcover in a near fine dust jacket - 2007
by Dillard, Annie
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- Title The Maytrees
- Author Dillard, Annie
- Binding Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket
- Edition First Edition, First Printing
- Condition Used - Fine
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York
- Date 2007
- Bookseller's Inventory # 004107
- ISBN 9780061239533 / 0061239534
- Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 8.25 x 5.62 x 0.87 in (20.96 x 14.27 x 2.21 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Friendship
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006052599
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
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