Vesty of the Basins
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A schoolhouse foghorn summons a Maine coastal settlement to Sunday worship, but the congregation soon turns to gossip about visitors, remedies and neighbours. Elder Skates struggles to start a hymn while the talk reveals a finely graded local social order. Vesty comes into the conversation as a woman helping with a baby. Around these exchanges, Sarah Pratt McLean Greene sets the sea, wet boulders and a battered building whose missing windowpanes open onto the passing clouds.
The novel also makes room for an argument about love and character. Notely Garrison speaks of his growing reputation, money and accomplished wife; Vesty challenges the purpose behind his success. Their painful conversation tests the difference between strong feeling and the steadiness that work and sorrow demand.
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- Reading time
- About 4 hours
- Pages
- 172
- Language
- English
- Genre
- American Classics
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