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...story acquires its reality and interest from clear and unembarrassed narrative. Kevin Hurley lives with his twin sister Maureen on a farm which very few people visit: their mother is dead and their father. now senile. is dying in the upstairs of the family farmhouse. Kevin and Maureen have been lovers for many years. McGinley. establishing the nature of their relationship in the first chapter, says...
...Maureen was the flickering flame that radiated what warmth he had in his life. She was his twin, a big handsome woman with a big freckled face, heavy underlike breasts, thick thighs, and a bottom that overflowed the edge of the chair when she had down... She was an earth girl, assiduous in bed and equally assiduous in the farmyard...
McGinley. however, does not lose much time in exploring metaphysical issues. The problem he presents in the very first chapter is the need to find a man who will appear to be the father of Maureen's unborn child. Kevin calls on his best friend, Murt Quane, and invites him over to the Hurley's farm. Tragically. Quane pulls into the Hurley's yard while Kevin is felling a tree; Quane is crushed by the falling trunk. One of Kevin's other friends, the misogynist veterinarian Festus O'Flaherty, arrives safety on the far but will have nothing...
Kevin's own marriage only complicates the picture. Feeling the need to establish a better life. Kevin courts and marries Murt Quane's bookish sister Elizabeth. The decisiveness of this marriage and the impossibility of keeping both Maureen and his wife force Kevin to decide where and with whom he will live. At the same time he must protect himself against the machinations of Snoddy and the vengeance of an imagined God. The prevalence of sickness and death in those around him, while completely natural, convinces Kevin that God's wreaks His vengeance for his sin by making innocent people...
...childhood memories of Elizabeth. Sex with her lacked the old association. In bed with Maureen he would imagine her as a girl climbing a tree in the Grove with pink winceyette knickers down to her knees. But in bed with Elizabeth he had to live in the thinness of the present...