Colony Mass market paperbound - 1993
by Anne Rivers Siddons
Colony, a rich multigenerational novel set in Maine, showcases Siddons' talent for storytelling. Maude arrived at "Retreat" that first summer a 19-year-old bride whose Southern origins and gypsy-like beauty mark her as an outsider. Years later, now a confident matriarch, she attempts to preserve the elite colony's future.
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All places where the French settled early have corruption at their heart, a kind of soft, rotten glow, like the phosphorescence of decaying wood, that is oddly attractive.
From the rear cover
When Maude Chambliss first arrives at Retreat, the seasonal home of her husband's aristocratic family, she is a nineteen-year-old bride fresh from South Carolina's Low Country. Among the patrician men and women who reside in the summer colony on the coast of Maine, her gypsy-like beauty and impulsive behavior immediately brand her an outsider. She, as well as everyone else, is certain she will never fit in. And of course, she doesn't...at first.
But over the many summers she spends there, Maude comes to cherish life in the colony, as she does the people who share it with her. There is her husband Peter, consumed with a darkness of spirit; her adored but dangerously fragile children; her domineering mother-in-law, who teaches her that it is the women who posses the strength to keep the colony intact; and Maine native Micah Willis, who is ultimately Maude's truest friend.This brilliant novel, rich with emotion, is filled with appealing, intense, and indomitable characters. Anne Rivers Siddons paints a portrait of a woman determined to preserve the spirit of past generations--and the future of aplaice where she became who she is...a place called Colony.
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- Title Colony
- Author Anne Rivers Siddons
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition 1st
- Pages 640
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperTorch, New York
- Date July 15, 1993
- ISBN 9780061099700 / 0061099708
- Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 6.71 x 4.19 x 1.43 in (17.04 x 10.64 x 3.63 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: New England
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Geographic Orientation: Maine
- Seasonal: Summer
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Women, Maine
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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