In this powerfully moving novel, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dillard displays penetrating insight into the human condition with a remarkable story about the unknowable, unbreakable bonds of love and family.
Warm and hopeful, The Maytrees is the surprising capstone of Dillard\'s original body of work..
She presents nature\'s vastness and nearness.
In this moving novel, Dillard intimately depicts willed bonds of loyalty, friendship, and abiding love.
But years later it is Deary who causes the town to talk.
When their son Petie appears, their innocent Bohemian friend Deary helps care for him.
They live cheaply among the nonconformist artists and writers that the bare tip of Cape Cod attracts.
In spare, elegant prose, Dillard traces the Maytrees\' decades of loving and longing.
He hides his serious wooing, and idly shows her his poems.
As he courts Lou, just out of college, her stillness draws him.
Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty.
Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. -- The Washington Times Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts.
The Maytrees is an intelligent, exquisite novel. -- New York Times In her elegant, sophisticated prose, Dillard tells a tale of intimacy, loss and extraordinary friendship and maturity against a background of nature in its glorious color and caprice.
A shimmering meditation on the ebb and flow of love. . . .
Brilliant.
In this powerfully moving novel, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dillard displays penetrating insight into the human condition with a remarkable story about the unknowable, unbreakable bonds of love and family
