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The Reef
by Edith Wharton and Kristen Underwood
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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.
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- 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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