Castine - Hardcover

Chute, Patricia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385198205 ISBN 13: 9780385198202

Publisher: Doubleday, 1987

Synopsis

Cassie, an aspiring young writer, falls in love with Stefan Kollar, the local minister in the Maine coastal town of Castine

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From Publishers Weekly

After California's hectic trendiness palls on them, writer Cassie Randall and her boyfriend, pop psychologist Greg Wier, search for a placid, stereotypically rustic New England town to settle in. They decide upon quaint Castine, Me., and are soon joined by two nonchalant friends from California. Castine's unsullied beauty heartens Cassie, yet the stability she craves is elusive. Matrimony intrigues her, but Greg's overbearing affability renders him unsuitable. Just when her dissatisfaction deepens, Reverend Stefan Kollar, the Czechoslovakian chaplain of the Maine Maritime Academy, claims Cassie's affections. Sensitive and unpretentious, Kollar feels an abiding reverence for his faith, his ethnic heritage and for Cassie, with whom he begins an exhilarating affair. Despite their compatibility, she balks when Kollar proposes, for she must weigh her love for him against the distasteful prospect of remaining in staid Castine. Chute ( Eva's Music portrays these disparate characters with laudable perceptiveness, and with touches of comedy.
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From Library Journal

Yes, it's a real place, this lovely seaport on the coast of Maine, but in Chute's gentle hands, Castine becomes an idyllic interlude in the life of writer Cassie Randall. Happenstance has brought Cassie and Greg, her live-in boyfriend who talks like a Psych 101 textbook, from their free-wheeling lifestyle in California to the quiet town where they plan to settle in for the winter and tend to their writing. Stefan Kollar, the young Czech minister at the Maritime College, also lives in Castine with his two colorful aunts, like him refugees from Communism. Stefan's search for stability and Cassie's for professional fulfillment are thrown to the winds as these two opposites are drawn closer and closer while beautifully drawn subsidiary characters look on with sympathetic dismay. A nicely written tale, recommended for general collections. Marion Hanscom, SUNY at Binghamton Lib.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0385198205
• ISBN 13: 9780385198202
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272