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Margreete's Harbor : a novel
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First edition.
"A literary novel set on the coast of Maine during the 1960s, tracing the life of a family and its matriarch as they negotiate sharing a home. Eleanor Morse's Margreete's Harbor begins with a fire: a fiercely-independent, thrice-widowed woman living on her own in a rambling house near the Maine coast forgets a hot pan on the stovetop, and nearly burns her place down. When Margreete Bright calls her daughter Liddie to confess, Liddie realizes that her mother can no longer live alone. She, her husband Harry, and their children Eva and Bernie move from a settled life in Michigan across the country to Margreete's isolated home, and begin a new life. Margreete's Harbor tells the story of ten years in the history of a family: a novel of small moments, intimatebetrayals, arrivals and disappearances that coincide with America during the late 1950s through the turbulent 1960s. Liddie, a professional cellist, struggles to find space for her music in a marriage that increasingly confines her; Harry's critical approach to the growing war in Vietnam endangers his new position as a high school history teacher; Bernie and Eva begin to find their own identities as young adults; and Margreete slowly descends into a private world of memories, even as she comes to find a larger purpose in them.. This beautiful novel --- attuned to the seasons of nature, the internal dynamics of a family, and a nation torn by its contradicting ideals -- reveals the largest meanings in the smallest and most secret moments of life. Readers of Elizabeth Strout, Alice Munro, and Anne Tyler will find themselves at home in Margreete's Harbor " -- Provided by publisher.
Available copies
- 8 of 8 copies available at Westchester Library System.
Current holds
0 current holds with 8 total copies.| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
Barcode | Status / Due Date |
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| Bronxville Public Library | FICTION MORSE (Text) Fiction |
31004151766560 |
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| Greenburgh Public Library | MORSE (Text) Fiction |
31009154801488 |
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| Harrison West Harrison Branch Library | MORSE, E. (Text) Fiction |
31010400114239 |
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| Hendrick Hudson Free Library | MORSE, ELEANOR (Text) Fiction |
31016151744769 |
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| Rye Free Reading Room | FICTION MORSE (Text) Fiction |
31028153291079 |
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| Warner Library | FICTION MORSE (Text) Fiction |
31033152222778 |
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| Yonkers Grinton I. Will Library | FIC Morse (Text) Fiction |
31035710057067 |
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| Yonkers Riverfront Library | FIC Morse (Text) Fiction |
31035600044985 |
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