The maytrees / Annie Dillard.
Sharing a simple life with his wife and young son in the post-war artist community of his childhood, free-thinking poet Toby Maytree is aided with child-care responsibilities by close friend Deary, who years later comes between Toby and his wife.
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. 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 Pete appears, their innocent Bohemian friend Deary helps care for him. These people are all loving, and ironic. As Dillard intimately depicts nature's vastness and nearness, she presents willed bonds of loyalty, friendship, and abiding love.-- From publisher description.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780061239533
- ISBN: 0061239534
- Physical Description: 216 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, [2007]
- Copyright: ©2007
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "A portion of this work has previously appeared, in different form, in Harper's magazine"--title page verso.
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- Friendship > Fiction.
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- Domestic fiction.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Swansboro Branch Library | FIC DILLARD (Text) | 36015000865762 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library | F DILLARD (Text) | 39493106068341 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Ashe County Public Library | F DIL (Text) | 50503300195247 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Avery County Morrison Public Library | FIC DIL (Text) | 31111002460556 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| BHM Headquarters Library | FIC (Text) | 38344101219515 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 08/24/2026 |
| Beaufort Main | F DIL (Text) | 34208201787693 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Canton Library | F (Text) | 33115005320962 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Charles H. Stone Memorial Library | F DILLARD (Text) | 30665100200637 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| East Bend Public Library | F DILLARD (Text) | 30667100098524 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Eden Library | Fic (Text) | 31554008395815 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
