| Although this book was a finalist for the Penn/Faulkner award, it is a very boring book about the fictional lives of a few free spirits living on a beach in Cape Cod. It is a story of love found, and love lost. Maytree marries his sweetheart and abandons her and his son, Pete, after more than a decade of marriage. Maytree moves to Maine with a family “friend” and begins a new life. It is only after his son is an adult, that Maytree even bothers to meet with him. In short, there is nothing that is sympathetic about the character. His wife, however, is remarkable in her capacity for love and forgiveness. |
The book is expectionally detailed and well written, but it is just as boring as the author’s, “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,”
