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Tom and Vera Claiborne have settled at Blencker’s Brook with a motley assortment of friends, family, and literati. Despite life at Blencker’s Brook being “a party every day,” a deepening sense of disaffection develops among its inhabitants: Tom, frustrated by his poetic impotency, takes a mistress; his cousin and his wife offer psychiatric theories and treatments; and Vera throws herself into farming and animal husbandry—all seeking to find what once was lost.
Gordon so perfectly captures the enervated carnality and marmoreal frigidity of the Lost Generation, and the ensuing need and the desire for meaning, that Flannery O’Connor called The Malefactors “undoubtedly the most serious and successful fictional treatment of a conversion by an American writer to date.”
“Caroline Gordon is not simply a gifted novelist; she is one with the intelligence to discipline and cultivate her powers so that her books have grown more skillful with time.” (The New York Times)
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