The Maytrees

De: Annie Dillard

Narrado por: David Rasche

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 Cape Cod attracts. Lou takes up painting. When their son Pete appears, their innocent Bohemian friend Deary helps care for him. These people are all loving, and ironic. Theirs is a simple and bold story.

In this moving novel, Dillard intimately depicts nature's vastness and nearness. She presents willed bonds of loyalty, friendship, and abiding love. Warm and hopeful, The Maytrees is the surprising capstone of Annie Dillard's original body of work.

©2007 Annie Dillard; (P)2007 HarperCollins Publishers

Annie Dillard a readers treasure

This is a book for readers. There seems to be not a word mis-said. The erudition is ever-present and commonplace making this love story truly lovely. Make no mistake. Read this book and gain a lifetimes worth of learning about…Love.

Not what I expected

I waited too long to review the book

I loved Pilgrim at Tinker Creek that I decided to read another by Dillard immediately. I confess I knew nothing about this book and thought it might have to do with trees. Surprise, it has to do with a family called the Maytrees!

The book was well written and narrated well, and set in an area I have visited, but I just never got to like or become involved with the characters in the novel.
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Lovely

Lovely, melodic, beautiful story of life, love, and peaceful existence as the world continues on its way.

Mediocre

The story had a lot of potential but just left me without much to hold onto

Love, boredom and freedom

An interesting novel that seems to coax the reader to look at love from the perspectives of cynics, purists and the non-chalant. A 'don't fence me in' mentality with strong undertones of loving unconditionally, this is a story of friendship that never really finishes or starts but rather jumps in and out of timeframes.