Word: macewan
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...Deep Midwinter takes place in St. Paul, Minnesota, where Clark grew up and where his grandfather grew up with childhood playmate F. Scott Fitzgerald. "I want to say he's a presence," says Clark, referring to Fitzgerald. Indeed Fitzgerald's people are present in In the Deep Midwinter, the MacEwan family might have been the next generation of Gatsbys. Set in the 1950's, the novel is fraught with the restraint and repression associated with that...
...story traces the lives of Richard and Sarah MacEwan, their divorced daughter Anna and grandson Douglas, and Anna's lover Charles Norden. The book opens as Richard is riding in a train to retrieve the body of his brother James who had just been killed in a hunting accident. "Perhaps the world was a wound..." the novel begins, and the despairing tone grows ever more hopeless from there. Later in the chapter, a grieving Richard sorts through James' belongings and discovers a letter that leads him to believe that his wife Sarah had an affair with James. Unable to confront...
Minnesota in the winter of 1949 is a world where everyone knows his place, and that place is often church, where proprieties are observed and secrets have a charge. Richard and Sarah MacEwan are a sweet-natured, guilt-edged couple held together by custom, affection and a devotion as much to the settled lives they've created over 30 years as to each other. But when his younger brother dies, Richard finds among his unmarried sibling's papers an intimate letter from Sarah and is suddenly propelled beyond the limit of what he knows and what he wants to know...