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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 · 2008The MaytreesHarper Perennial · 240 pages · 9780061239540
- Audiobook · English · 2007HarperAudio · 9780061285462
- Paperback · English · 2007The Maytrees LPHarperLuxe · 256 pages · 9780061285301
- Ebook · English · 2007The MaytreesHarperCollins · 9780061445446
- Other · English · 2007The MaytreesHarperCollins · 216 pages · 9780061239533
- Other · English · 2007MaytreesHarperCollins Publishers · 9780061445484
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