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At the end of her long life, Elinor Caskey prepares to say goodbye to Perdido and to the family she has united, enriched, and nurtured. But Elinor's death unleashes a tragedy held in check for 60 years, and the town itself may not survive her.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Michael McDowell, Michael McDowell
- First published
- 1983
- Pages
- 190
- Publisher
- Avon, Avon Books, Monsieur Toussaint Louverture
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780380827923
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Michael McDowell was born in 1950 in Enterprise, Alabama, and graduated from T.R. Miller High in Brewton, Alabama. He received a B.A. and an M.A. from Harvard College, and a Ph.D in English from Brandeis University in 1978, based on a dissertation entitled "American Attitudes Toward Death, 1825–1865." His extensive and diverse collection of death memorabilia, including items such as death pins, photographs and plaques from infant caskets, was acquired by Chicago's Northwestern University in 2013. As an adult, McDowell lived in Medford, Massachusetts, where he taught screenwriting at Boston University and Tufts University while continuing to write commissioned screenplays. McDowell's partner
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