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The Bostons

The Bostons

Description

Mr. Sargent, the aging Brahmin aesthete of the title story, scribbles his epiphanies on cocktail napkins and covers them up with his drinks. A Maine innkeeper shoots his wife, who remains bitterly loyal to him until the death of their son. A whole family conspires to keep the birth of yet another dirt-poor relation a secret from his grandmother. On the icy cobblestone streets of Boston and the rockbound coast of Maine, these vividly realized characters try to reconcile habits of obedience and self-reliance with the urgent desire to capture the wild core of life. The result is an explosion of exquisitely tuned voices, as authentic as they are unforgettable.

ISBN

978-0618017683

Publication Date

2001

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin (Mariner Books)

City

New York

Keywords

Contemporary American Literature, Short Stories, Fiction

Disciplines

American Literature | Fiction

The Bostons

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