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The Reef|Edith Wharton

Overview

The Reef follows the fancies of George Darrow, a young diplomat en route from London to France, intent on proposing to the widowed Anna Leath. Unsettled by Anna's reticence, Darrow drifts into an affair with Sophy Viner, a charmingly na├ ve and impecunious young woman whose relations with Darrow and Anna's family threaten his prospects for success. The affair becomes the reef on which four lives are in danger of foundering: two of them innocent, and two of them burdened with experience and tinged with desperation.

A challenge to the moral climate of the day, this story of the drastic effects of a casual sexual betrayal offers a clear-eyed assessment of the possibilities and limitations of human love.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780786162093
  • ISBN-10: 0786162090
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish Date: December 2007
  • Dimensions: 7.49 x 5.44 x 0.59 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.21 pounds
  • Reading Level: Ages 18-UP

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