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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9781888683318
ISBN: 1888683317
Label: Wooster Book Co
Manufacturer: Wooster Book Co
Number Of Pages: 303
Publication Date: 2000-10
Publisher: Wooster Book Co
Sales Rank: 490993
Studio: Wooster Book Co
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This is an engrossing story of family life and values in the early part of the 20th century. Interwoven tales of found love and lost love runs throughout the novel. The heroine finds herself unwittingly in charge of the extended family that puts itself above all other families in the area. She has to deal with a dying child, a loveless marriage, and the weight of family ancestors. She falls in love with the new owner of the neighboring estate. She draws the parallel between her love for this ... Read More
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While I thoroughly enjoyed this book, I kept shutting it to look back at the cover to make sure that it hadn't been written by Edith Wharton. It certainly seems to be a very close cousin to The Age of Innoncence. In fact, I was not at all suprised when I came across this (to me, amusing) passage: "Her mother, she saw now, belonged to the America of the nineties. She saw her now less as a real person than a character out of a novel by Mrs. Wharton."
Putting the topic of mimicry aside, ... Read More
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This 1927 Pulitzer Prize winner is a richly crafted character study of an old New England family at the end of its influence and name-carrying tradition. Olivia Pentland is trapped in a loveless marriage to Anson Pentland, the self-absorbed authority on Pentland family history. Languishing in the home is frail Jack Pentland, the fifteen year-old heir to the family name and fortune. Isolated in a far wing upstairs is "her" the nameless and addled wife of old John Pentland, the reigning monarch of ... Read More
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