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The Maytrees

Author: Annie Dillard
Publisher: New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, ©2007.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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. Dillard traces the Maytrees' decades of loving and longing. They live cheaply among the  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Domestic fiction.
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Annie Dillard
ISBN: 9780061239533 0061239534
OCLC Number: 76786885
Notes: "A portion of this work has previously appeared, in different form, in Harper's magazine"--T.p. verso.
Description: 216 p. ; 22 cm.
Responsibility: Annie Dillard.

Abstract:

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.

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