The cool, beautiful Constance Schuylerlives alone in Manhattan in the early 1960s. At a literary party,she meets Sidney Klein, a professor of poetry twenty years her senior. Sidney is a single father with a poor marital record, and he pursues Constance withrelentless determination. Eventually she surrenders, accepts his marriage proposal, and moves, with some dread, into his dark, book-filled apartment.
She can't settle in. She's tortured by memories of the bitterly unhappy childhood she spent with her father in a dilapidated house upstate. When she learns devastating new information about that past, Constance's fragile psyche suffers a profound shock. Her marriage, already tottering, threatens to collapse completely. Frightened, desperate, and alone,Constance makes a disastrous decision andthen looks on asher world rapidly fallsapart. Her only consolation, as the cityswelters in an interminable heat wave, is the friendship of Sidney's son, Howard,a strange, delicate child, not unlike Constance herself.
The story of a marriage in crisis and a family haunted by trauma, Constance is also atale of resilience and loyalty, and of the moral inspirationthat can lead even the most lost of soulsback to the light.
The cool, beautiful Constance Schuylerlives alone in Manhattan in the early 1960s. At a literary party,she meets Sidney Klein, a professor of poetry twenty years her senior. Sidney is a single father with a poor marital record, and he pursues Constance withrelentless determination. Eventually she surrenders, accepts his marriage proposal, and moves, with some dread, into his dark, book-filled apartment.
She can't settle in. She's tortured by memories of the bitterly unhappy childhood she spent with her father in a dilapidated house upstate. When she learns devastating new information about that past, Constance's fragile psyche suffers a profound shock. Her marriage, already tottering, threatens to collapse completely. Frightened, desperate, and alone,Constance makes a disastrous decision andthen looks on asher world rapidly fallsapart. Her only consolation, as the cityswelters in an interminable heat wave, is the friendship of Sidney's son, Howard,a strange, delicate child, not unlike Constance herself.
The story of a marriage in crisis and a family haunted by trauma, Constance is also atale of resilience and loyalty, and of the moral inspirationthat can lead even the most lost of soulsback to the light.
Constance
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Constance
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783772544255 |
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| Publisher: | Verlag Freies Geistesleben |
| Publication date: | 10/13/2021 |
| Series: | Oktaven |
| Sold by: | Bookwire |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 282 |
| File size: | 599 KB |
| Language: | German |