Contributions

  • Edward Connery Lanthem - Editor
  • Robert Frost - Contributor
  • Lesley Frost - Contributor
  • T. S. Elliot - Contributor
  • Anne Rivers Siddons - Epilogue
and 1 more
  • Anne Rivers Siddons - Prologue

Publication

2003 - HarperTorch An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, USA, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

150,000 words, Guess

Page Count

600 pages

Physical Format

Electronic resource, and Paperback

Identifiers

and 12 more
  • ISBN-139780060767518
  • ISBN-100060590874
  • ISBN-100061740543
  • ISBN-100060767510
  • ISBN-139780061099700
  • OverDrive459B3A21-1BE5-4CE6-9555-F15DB4791917
  • Library of Congress Control Number91058357
  • OCLC Control Number25410571
  • Better World Books9780061099700
  • Better World Books9780060767518
  • Better World Books9780061740541
  • Open LibraryOL24279071M

Classifications

  • LCCPS3569.I28 C65
  • LCCPS3569.I28 C65 1992

Description

It isn't easy for sweet young Maude Gascoigne, from a moldering plantation near Charleston, to fit in when her new husband, sterling-silver Peter Chambliss takes her to the summer place. For the first few decades Maude battles it out with her insufferable, hypercritical mother-in-law, the drunken and lecherous husband of her best friend, Amy Potter, and even Peter himself--a depressive, hermetic man who just sails away whenever things get rough. Gradually, though, little Maudie gets some starch and learns to endure almost anything.

First Sentence

All places where the French settled early have corruption at their heart, a kind of soft, rotten glow, like the phosphorescence of decaying wood, that is oddly attractive.

Subjects

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