Eucalyptus Fair: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel - Hardcover
Describes the courtship of Joy and Bill Bridge, college sweethearts, and their three-year separation
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In 1928, Bill Bridge, a self-absorbed college senior with literary ambitions, falls in love with perky, clingy freshman Joy Carpenter on an idyllic California campus overlooking the Pacific. With snippets of period slang and lots of swooning, Powell evokes magical poetry seminars, adolescents' intellectual awakenings and the heady rapture of first love. But Bridge, a stand-in for the author, chooses a doctoral fellowship in France over Joy, lets their relationship disintegrate and then learns she has married and had a baby. Much of this semi-fictionalized love story is a self-indulgent, sentimental tribute to Powell's wife of more than 50 years. He wrote most of it in 1943, but acceeded to his wife's wishes and did not try to publish it during her lifetime. Although the first 80 pages are wasted on a pious previous girlfriend, an unlikely match for the self-styled pagan, scotch-drinking pianist Bill, the 30-page coda, written in 1988, rescues the story. It's a beautifully controlled, poignant piece of writing in which Powell restores Bill to his senses: the youth returns to California during the Depression, reunites with his true love (with thanks to her kindly husband) and embarks on his calling.
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- PublisherBooks West Southwest
- ISBN 10 0963296612
- ISBN 13 9780963296610
- BindingHardcover
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Eucalyptus Fair A Memoir in the Form of a Novel
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ISBN 13: 9780963296610
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition; First Printing. Book designed by Ward Ritchie. Green linen covered boards with silver lettering and green recessed illustration on cover. Dust jacket in a mylar cover. 8vo. 271pp. Seller Inventory # Pow60081
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Book Description Condition: Fine. Fine SIGNED and LIMITED Deluxe EDITION in a SLIPCASE Hardcover Leather backed illustrated paper covered boards, with the titles stamped in silver on the spine and front cover In a light green cloth covered slipcase with a gilt stamped title and green ink stamped eucalyptus design on the front panel Like new This is one of a limited edition of only 50 copies Signed by Lawrence Clark Powell and the designer Ward Ritchie Ships from Hawaii with Priority Mail, not slow Media Mail. Seller Inventory # 4D-GVJU-PDVP
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