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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: 9781470888077
- ISBN-10: 1470888076
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date: June 2013
- Dimensions: 5.7 x 5.2 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.55 pounds
- Reading Level: Ages 18-UP
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