Word: redcliff
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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Contemporary Charleston is full of high-willed traditions, high-walled houses and high-born gentlefolk like Judith Redcliff, who would not think of having Sunday dinner before three in the afternoon. Shut in by such walls, lusty commoners like Lorena Hessenwinkle seem more vital, vulgar and exciting than they would otherwise. Judith's husband - the triangle's apex - happens to be dead but is still alive enough to cause high-tension bickering between the girls at Judith's three o'clock dinner. Novelist Josephine Pinckney has water-colored a neat, pale comedy of manners which...
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