Audio Book Description:
Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree isa Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty. As he courtsLou, just out of college, herstillness 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 thenonconformist artists and writers that the bare tip of Cape Cod attracts. Lou takes up painting. When their son Pete appears, their innocent Bohemian friendDeary helps care for him. Thesepeople are all loving, and ironic. Theirs is a simple and bold story.
