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Published posthumously in 1972, after the author's death in 1970, this is a family saga set in the US midwest on the eve of WW1.
A rather dark family saga of heart-and-soulless women in warmer bodies; and the double-breasted suited men who go on to success via the right fraternity and the right country club. This takes place in 1913, extending through World War I in Cleveland, Ohio. All of it is clocked with the precision of a chronometer. Edna Ewing, thinks of herself as a 'nice girl', and thus managed to marry Bill Ewing and discard her lower middle-class and less desirable midwestern (Michigan) parents and affiliations. Or Ada Ewing, Bill's mother, a late-in-life surprise to him since he wondered whether she had had an affair with an older member of his father's law firm when actually, after his death, she needed "affection," spelled sex, which she found with other women.
Foxing ( age spotting to the inside coevrs, otherwise unmarked. Closed tear to lower front DJ edge, which looks to have been repaired a long tiem ago with a small tape fix.
