Lily: A Love Story - Hardcover

Bonner, Cindy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0945575955 ISBN 13: 9780945575955

Publisher: Algonquin Books, 1992

Synopsis

Lily DeLony abandons her industrious, religious, and upright life to follow her love, Marion "Shot" Berry, a young outlaw, a decision that has fateful repercussions for her entire family. A first novel.

About this title

About the Author

Cindy Bonner lives in Corpus Christi, Texas, with her husband and their two sons. Her short stories have appeared in several literary magazines, including "'The Gettysburg Review"' and "'High Plains Literary Review"'. "'Lily"' is her first published book.

Stefano Vitale grew up in Italy and studied in Venice and Verona before coming to the U.S. His work has appeared in national magazines and many works for children. He lives in New York.

From Kirkus Reviews

Bonner's beguiling first novel--about love between a hard- working farm girl and an outlaw in 1883 Texas--manages to be thoroughly romantic without romanticizing violence: a wonderful evocation of time and place and the voice of a strong, hopeful 15- year-old girl. Lily DeLony never meant to go wrong. Why, she wonders, did she have to be different from all the other decent people in town, and be able to see the good in Marion Beatty instead of just the bad? She was maybe more vulnerable than most--motherless and overloaded with endless responsibilities, with no softness or comfort in a hardscrabble life--but Lily is no one's victim or fool. She is moved not just by Marion's charm, good looks, and their stolen kisses but by his own terrible situation: the small town of McDade judges the whole Beatty family no good; Marion has been condemned for his wild older brothers' sins. Not only that: the Beattys get blamed for every violent crime that takes place in the country, even when Lily knows for a fact--or close to it--that they are being falsely accused. As she watches virtuous people, including her father, step over all moral lines in acts of vigilante violence, Lily takes Marion's part. By the time she finds she's been overly optimistic about his innocence, Lily has bit by bit given up old ideas of right and wrong and is committed to her outlaw for better or worse. Even readers who don't approve of Lily's love-choice will cheer for her all the way. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Edition details

• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0945575955
• ISBN 13: 9780945575955
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336