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HarperCollins
March 2012
On Sale: March 1, 2012
288 pages
ISBN: 0062089196
EAN: 9780062089199
Kindle: B005MMJHGE
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Historical
Allen Liles is a fictional character. I made her up. Her
story is made up too. But not all of it. Part of it’s mine,
handed on to her, altered to fit. It’s an old story. You’ve heard it before, any number of
times. But I wanted to tell it again, as it happened in a
time and a place where something existed which nowadays, it
seems to me, is in short supply: innocence. Innocence, of
course, can lead to error, and error led to the expulsion
from Eden. Or so it is generally considered . . . The time: 1941, at the cusp of America’s entry into WWII.
The place: southwest Missouri, on the edge of the Ozark
Mountains. A young, single woman named Allen Liles has taken
a job as a junior college teacher in a small town, though
she dreams of living in New York City, of dancing at
recitals, of absorbing the bohemian delights of the Village.
Then, in her seminar, she encounters two young men: George,
a lanky, carefree spirit, and Toby, a dark-haired, searching
soul with a wary look in his eyes. Soon the three strike up
an after-school friendship, bantering and debating over
letters, ethics, and philosophy—innocently at first, but
soon in giddy flirtation, until the moment when Allen and
one of the young men push things too far and her world is
sent spinning into a state of wrenching pain and dire jeopardy. Building upon the frankness and emotional acuity of The
Moonflower Vine, author Jetta Carleton returns us to her
richly developed fictional world in this very personal and
uniquely enchanting novel—and reminds us that even simpler
times have always been fraught with conflicts of the heart.
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