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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 Cape Cod attracts. Lou takes up painting. When their son Petie appears, their innocent Bohemian…

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9 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2008
    The Maytrees
    Harper Perennial · 240 pages · 9780061239540
  • Audiobook · English · 2007
    HarperAudio · 9780061285462
  • Paperback · English · 2007
    The Maytrees LP
    HarperLuxe · 256 pages · 9780061285301
  • Ebook · English · 2007
    The Maytrees
    HarperCollins · 9780061445446
  • Other · English · 2007
    The Maytrees
    HarperCollins · 216 pages · 9780061239533
  • Other · English · 2007
    Maytrees
    HarperCollins Publishers · 9780061445484
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