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It is June. Diana Stoving's new Porsche has just broken down on the Garden State Parkway, and Diana, twenty-one, freshly graduated from Sarah Lawrence, sits in a dealer's showroom, waiting for repairs. Bored and impatient, Diana leafs through the local newspaper - and by pure chance reads the... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Diana Stoving: Add a description of this character.
- Daniel Lyam Montross: Diana's grandfather.
- Henry Fox
- Rachel Mclowery
- Mrs. Whittacker: Day Whittacker's mother.
- Mr. Sedgely: A High School English teacher at East Passaic High who is researching age regression through hypnosis.
- Dudleytown
- Zephaniah
- Renz Allyn
- Melissa Mclowery
- Joel
- Marshall Allen
- Jake Claghorn
- Jared
- Susan Trombley: Diana's college roommate. She is a passenger in Diana's Porshe after graduation when Diana has car trouble.
- Zadock
- Danny
- Braddock
- Bardwell
- Parmenter
- Annie
- Emmeline
- Day Whittacker: The High School student who, under hypnosis, discovers that he was Daniel Lyam Montross in a previous life.
- Hattie Rose Pearl
- Flossie
- Vashti
- Sarah Lawrence
- Lara
- Mr. Buford
- Mrs. Peary
- Sedgely
- Jessup
- Herman
Setting & Locations edit
- Vermont
- Connecticut
- New York
- Arkansas
- New Jersey
- Lost Cove
- Little Rock
- Cornwall Bridge
- Stick Around
- Bridgewater
- North Carolina
- East Passaic High School
- New England
- Torrington
- Illinois
- Dark Entry Road
- Woodstock Hospital
- Ammey
- Rutland
- Georgia
- Marcella Falls
- Pennsylvania
- California
- Massachusetts
- Gold Brook Chateau
- Ardmore
- Ludlow
First Sentence edit
Back out of all this now too much for us, as the poet Frost once began a piece called "Directive", there is a town that is no more a town (there are, in fact, four of them, and in driving downstate after leaving one of them, to get to some other place, she passed one of those temporary red cardboard signs which proclaim "Frost Heaves", and not having seen one before, and it being one of the states in which the poet had spent his last years, she thought it was some snide commentary about him, like the graffiti that insinuate , "Nixon Sucks", and pointing this out to her companion, or consort, she wondered aloud if the poet's regurgitation was his reaction to their story. Her companion, or consort, did not seem to get it...perhaps because he was dead).
Authors & Contributors edit
- Donald Harington (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Orlando
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1989
ISBN: 015683801X
Page Count: 468
Publisher: Orlando
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1989
ISBN: 015683801X
Page Count: 468
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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