Name/Title
Dear Deadly CaraEntry/Object ID
2018.017.026Description
A novel by Grace Zaring Stone. From the dust jacket flap,
"The events in this novel take place in a small East Coast seapor where the town's elite are observed by a stranger, Gill Mason. He is a young, brash, down-at-the-heels artist who has been befriended by an older man, a resident of Cold Harbor. At first Gill is amused by their customs, their bickering, their delicate malice, the whole ingrown, inbred life they live. He is also diverted by the peripheral hangers-on to such a society, principally the mystery man who occupies the biggest house in town and whose income stems from unknown sources. And Gill is more than a little enticed by the only other young person in the society, a girl recently admitted through marriage to a man many years her senior.
Suddenly the quiet, even tenor of life is violently disturbed - by the actions of two women generations apart. Cara has been dead for many yeras before Gill came to Cold Harbor, but she has left a legacy of disaster that is used by the young and bitter Avril.
When murder finally happens, Gill is stunned by the naked face of evil. He feels a sickening sense of outrage that creatures such as these should be given such power. One a vain, silly woman with no conception of the consequences of her acts, the other prevoviously and deeply hardened to all but self-love, taking a crazy delight, getting even a crazy sense of fun out of her own cunning nad depravity. Between them, without even any common intention or connivance, by the mere act of existing in their separate selves, they had managed to wreck two human lives."Collection
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Author
Stone, Grace ZaringDate Published
1968