Colony

Siddons, Anne Rivers

ISBN 10: 0751510823 / ISBN 13: 9780751510829

Published by Warner Books, London, 1996

About this Item

Clean pages with no markings in the text. Light tanning of the pages. The front end paper is missing. Light cover creases. Spine creasing. Light spine lean. Author inscribed to a previous owner with author signature on the title page.

Seller Inventory # 013381

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Colony
• Publisher: Warner Books, London
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0751510823
• ISBN 13: 9780751510829
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • General Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

An unforgettable story of love, acceptance, and tradition. When Maude Chambliss first arrives at Retreat, the seasonal home of her husband's aristocratic family, she is a nineteen-year-old bride fresh from South Carolina's Low Country. Among the patrician men and women who reside in the summer colony on the coast of Maine, her gypsy-like beauty and impulsive behavior immediately brand her an outsider. She, as well as everyone else, is certain she will never fit in. And of course, she doesn't...at first. But over the many summers she spends there, Maude comes to cherish life in the colony, as she does the people who share it with her. There is her husband Peter, consumed with a darkness of spirit; her adored but dangerously fragile children; her domineering mother-in-law, who teaches her that it is the women who posses the strength to keep the colony intact; and Maine native Micah Willis, who is ultimately Maude's truest friend. This brilliant novel, rich with emotion, is filled with appealing, intense, and indomitable characters. Anne Rivers Siddons paints a portrait of a woman determined to preserve the spirit of past generations--and the future of aplaice where she became who she is...a place called Colony . "An outstanding multigenerational novel...We are hooked from the moment we meet Maude."The New York Times

About the Author

Anne Rivers Siddons's bestselling novels include Nora, Nora; Sweetwater Creek; Islands; and Fox's Earth. She is also the author of the nonfiction work John Chancellor Makes Me Cry. She and her husband divide their time between Charleston, South Carolina, and Brooklin, Maine.

Judith Ivey has received two Tony® and two Drama Desk awards; she starred in the television series Down Home and has appeared in seventy-five stage productions and twenty films.