A poetic tale of love and longing as Toby Maytree courts Lou in postwar Provincetown, tracing decades of their bond.
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A poetic tale of love and longing as Toby Maytree courts Lou in postwar Provincetown, tracing decades of their bond.
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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 ...
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Moderate focus on romantic longing and love between main characters; no explicit sexual content depicted.
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Occult / demonology
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