The Hills of Desire
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Jimmie Wardwell earns his living writing comic pieces while struggling to shape a novel he cares about. At his New York boarding house, Augusta Wilding offers blunt advice about his work, then faces a crisis when her mother disappears after a fall in the street. Their lively exchanges give way to worry, and Augusta's apparent flashes of foreknowledge add another uncertainty to the search.
Richard Aumerle Maher's novel brings a writer's ambitions into contact with family duty, affection and the wish for a home. A later scene places Jimmie and Augusta beside a secluded mountain lake, where her delight in the landscape turns into a disturbing vision of what lies ahead. With marriage and the First World War among its subjects, the book offers readers domestic fiction shaped by both ordinary conversation and an uneasy sense of the future.
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- Author
- Richard Aumerle Maher
- Pages
- 163
- Language
- English
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- American Classics
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