Critically acclaimed when it was first published in 1987, this timeless collection of stories features eccentric, complex characters who think and do the unconventional.
Abigail and Dorcas are twins, but they are as different as two girls can be. Abigail is promiscuous and vain, Dorcas is scholarly and repressed. But the two get along, and when Abigail has an out-of-wedlock daughter, she and Dorcas care for the child together. Then Abigail meets Conrad, a womanizing sadist who nearly destroys Abigail--and even has ...
Critically acclaimed when it was first published in 1987, this timeless collection of stories features eccentric, complex characters who think and do the unconventional.
Rhode Island, New England, the present day. A hurricane is on its way and the locals are preparing to batten down the hatches. Dorcas Mather, local librarian, is less concerned by the imminent threat than about a book that's come in with the most recent delivery. It's THE ABIGAIL MATHER STORY -- a true crime epic which supposedly tells the true ...
Rhode Island, New England, the present day. A hurricane is on its way and the locals are either packing up and clearing out, or buying emergency provisions and preparing to batten down the hatches. Dorcas Mather, local librarian and spinster, is less concemed by the imminent threat than about a book that's come in with the most recent delivery. It ...
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