Faithful Are the Wounds

A Novel

28 January 1998

May Sarton (Author)

Description

Set in the academic world of Harvard and Cambridge, this novel dramatizes the plight of the embattled American liberal in the 1950s.

Its central character is Edward Cavan, a brilliant English professor, who commits suicide. His death sets off a shock wave among Cavan's friends and changes things for some of them forever.

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Paperback

9780393317152

140 x 211 mm • 288 pages

£20.00

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