3806X2 First Edition. Harper Collins Publishers, NY: 1992. 466 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket. reading copy. Page discoloration. Maude Chambliss, ninety-year-old doyenne of Retreat, a summer colony in Maine, is waiting for her granddaughter to arrive and take her home at the close of the season. As she waits, she looks back on her rich life, from the day she first arrived at Retreat as a nineteen-year-old bride, fresh from Charleston and clearly out of place in this enclave of aristocratic Bostonians, through all the summers she spent there and the love and tragedy, happiness and sorrow, friendship, and enmity she experienced. ISBN: 0060179333 $4.25USD
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