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"Brilliant. . . . A shimmering meditation on the ebb and flow of love." --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. The Maytrees is an intelligent, exquisite novel." -- The Washington Times

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 Cape Cod attracts. When their son Petie appears, their innocent Bohemian friend Deary helps care for him. But years later it is Deary who causes the town to talk.

In this moving novel, Dillard intimately depicts willed bonds of loyalty, friendship, and abiding love. She presents nature's vastness and nearness. Warm and hopeful, The Maytrees is the surprising capstone of Dillard's original body of work.

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"A gorgeous meditation on one couple's slog through marriage, separation and reconciliation."--The Washington Post

"A superbly written novel. . . . The compact, elliptical narrative will continue to pervade the reader's consciousness long after the novel ends."--Kirkus (starred review)

"Glorious."--The Miami Herald

"Dillard has written an elegant metaphor strewn and at the same time beach-funky, philosophically minded, ocean-side love story set on Cape Cod, between the dunes and the star-splashed sky above."--NPR's All Things Considered

"The Maytrees is a soulful exploration of love and marriage that has the hot, sunburned sting of a seaside summer afternoon. . . . Dillard evokes the rich landscape and characters of Cape Cod--its eccentric clam diggers and poets posing as roofers--while centering her story around one family's moving tragedy."--People

"Dillard has all she needs in terms of imagination, and she is handy with the witty rejoinders."--The Chicago Tribune

"Lyrically enthralling. . . . Dillard tells an engaging, subtle tale."--The Seattle Times

"Dillard's poetic descriptions seem to grow up out of the sand and seafoam, and the images she puts into your mind, playfully rendered and wonderfully precise, are spellbinding. Ultimately, this is a story of great tenderness."--The Arizona Republic

"A reservoir of oceanic language, thrilling and sophisticated assumptions of reader intelligence and elegantly lean descriptive detail. . . . Dillard knows how to create Eden on the page . . . exquisite."--Los Angeles Book Review

"Intelligent and poetic. . . . Dillard's prose is rich, as is her dive into the too-often-shallow waters of love and deception. . . . The Maytrees will not disappoint."--The Rocky Mountain News
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This profound and meditative reflection on the nature of love, written with all her characteristic verve and grace,
is Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Dillard's second novel.

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  • PublisherHarper Perennial
  • Publication date2008
  • ISBN 10 0061239542
  • ISBN 13 9780061239540
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