A poetic tale of love and longing as Toby Maytree courts Lou in postwar Provincetown, tracing decades of their bond.
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A poetic tale of love and longing as Toby Maytree courts Lou in postwar Provincetown, tracing decades of their bond.
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 ...
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Moderate focus on romantic longing and love between main characters; no explicit sexual content depicted.
No violence or gore depicted.
No evidence of profanity or strong language.
No evidence of alcohol or drug use.
No evidence of LGBTQ+ characters or themes.
No evidence of religious themes or content.
No fantasy magic or witchcraft depicted.
No real-world occult content depicted.
No evidence of political or ideological messaging.
No evidence of self-harm or suicide themes.
No evidence of abuse or systemic suffering.
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