01707cam a2200277 4500 77137254 TxAuBib 20070819120000.0 061115s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2006052599 9780061239533 acid-free paper 0061239534 acid-free paper DLC DLC CoLwJCPL TxAuBib Dillard, Annie. The Maytrees / Annie Dillard. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2007. 216 p. ; 22 cm. "A novel"--Cover. "A portion of this work has previously appeared, in different form, in Harper's magazine"--T.p. verso. Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty. As he courts Lou, just out of college, her stillness draws him. Hands-off, he hides his serious wooing, and idly shows her his poems. Dillard traces the Maytrees' decades of loving and longing. They live cheaply among the nonconformist artists and writers that the bare tip of Cape Cod attracts. Lou takes up painting. When their son Pete appears, their innocent Bohemian friend Deary helps care for him. These people are all loving, and ironic. As Dillard intimately depicts nature's vastness and nearness, she presents willed bonds of loyalty, friendship, and abiding love.--From publisher description. 20080305. Friendship Fiction. Provincetown (Mass) Fiction. Domestic fiction.