A Circle of Earth
Overview
A moving look at how lives are shaped by circumstance. Set in Alabama between and following the two world wars, A Circle of Earth tells the story of two characters' attempts to find happiness in a world where both lives and marriages are defined not by choice but by circumstance. At age seventeen Emma walks blindly into a marriage that is not a love match. Her plight becomes the attempt to exist within the confines of this relationship. The limitations of Henry's world are uniquely cruel, as he has a searching and eager mind. The effects of the Great Depression worsen his situation, resulting in his placement in the state mental hospital, where he forms an unlikely bond with a young psychiatrist-a Northerner of whom he asks "if Levy had ever loved a woman. Loved her so that the lobe of an ear or the shape of her mouth were little sights to almost hurt a man's heart."
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781478726807
- ISBN-10: 1478726806
- Publisher: Outskirts Press
- Publish Date: March 2014
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.88 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.27 pounds
- Page Count: 394
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