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The Maytrees

A Novel

By Annie Dillard

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| Paperback | 9780061239540

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Book Description

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 wooinContinue

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At the edge of the coloured world

The Maytrees by Annie Dillard 185pp, Hesperus, £12.99 The Cape Cod of these pages is not an easy place to visit. The landscape is exposed and pared-down, "antiquity's very surface", and the natives are wilfully eccentric and self-consciously pictures ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

Case against complacency

Annie Dillard is best known for her nature writing, in particular the influential Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Now in her sixties, she has returned to fiction with the story of Lou and Toby Maytree, a bookish, eccentric couple who retreat to a shack on t ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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A CLASSIC

This is a book for the ages. Dillard's is a master at getting under your skin without seeming to want to. Her tone is that of a sage who speaks the truth, not caring whether you get it or not. She has streamlined language to a point where you have to read with attention (this book has been culled fr ... (continue)

This is a book for the ages. Dillard's is a master at getting under your skin without seeming to want to. Her tone is that of a sage who speaks the truth, not caring whether you get it or not. She has streamlined language to a point where you have to read with attention (this book has been culled from 1200 to 216 pages). It's a book to be read and re read through time.

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