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In the wake of World War II, the Caskey family prospers in Perdido under the guidance of new matriarch Elinor Caskey. But the family's tragic, bloody past still haunts them even in the midst of what should be their greatest triumph.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and bleak.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Michael McDowell, Michael McDowell
- First published
- 1983
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Penguin, Avon Books, Monsieur Toussaint Louverture
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9781804996409
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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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