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McAlpine, Gordon The Persistence of Memory
London Peter Owen Ltd 1998 0720610478 / 9780720610475 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Only slight wear; A bright, solid book, DJ in Mylar ; 0.7 x 8.79 x 5.7 Inches; 156 pages; From its initial event--the appearance of a mysterious stranger in an alternate Langsdon, Ky., circa 1901--this slender but heavy-handed novel places itself in the fable mode, part Cinderella, part Southern gothic. The stranger is an (apparently) drowned man, pulled from a stream by Elvia Witt, a laundress of significant local reputation. So voluminous is Elvia's laundry washing, in fact, that she lives in a home composed entirely of laundry, a structure Waldo, her ill-tempered husband, calls his "linen castle." Elvia and Waldo share the linen castle with their 14 children (named for the cardinal virtues and deadly sins), the most prominent of whom is an attractive young woman who, with typically hammed-up irony, is named Chastity. When the stranger comes mysteriously back to life, Elvia names him Farley LaRue, after a Shakespearean actor who had once been Elvia's lover. Jealous Waldo can't abide Farley, however, and the entire surrounding town of Sweetbriar soon feels his displeasure.
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