Cliff Walk - Hardcover

Dickson, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395411068 ISBN 13: 9780395411063

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1987

Synopsis

Crelly, a sensitive young actress, and her husband John, a brilliant mathematician, fight to save their marriage from the hauntings of the past and the destructive motives of Crelly's brother Gene

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

The cliff of the title is on the coast of Maine, and the walk is a desperate night chase coming at the end of this novel by the author of Octavia's Hill and Maddy's Song. When Crelly Kemp's parents died, she and her brothers Jimmy and Gene went to live with an aunt and uncle in a ramshackle house in interior Maine. The two adults attempt to draw the children into their perversions, and one cold night nine-year-old Crelly flees to the farm of other relatives, where she is given refuge and love, no questions asked. Years later, on a dramatics scholarship at a state college, Crelly meets and marries John Werner, a talented young mathematician. The marriage falters early, with help from John's intrusive mother, and at the same time Crelly is approached again by her brother Gene, who has taken on the horrifying appetites of those who raised him. When Crelly and John attempt reconciliation at the island home of John's beloved mathematics mentor, Gene follows, desperate with desire and need. The chase that night offers hope to Crelly and John, if they can survive. Dickson's prose is powerful and deeply textured. Utterly without sentiment, her evocation of evil is as uncompromising as the harsh, dark landscape these characters inhabit.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0395411068
• ISBN 13: 9780395411063
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 242