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The Night Travellers - 1991

The time of this novel (1960’s
through to the closing days of the Vietnam
War) makes a frame for the various lives that
are caught up in the period. Mary Kerr Harbison
is a promising young ballet student in a North
Carolina city. She meets and falls in love with
Jefferson Blaise from Louisiana, a young activist
who has come to N.C., following a charismatic
professor he studied with at Georgetown.
Their romance and marriage is complicated
by Jeff leaving the U.S. for Canada, subsequently
spending long periods away as a fugitive.
Mary Kerr is subject to hostility from a psychotic
mother, the bete noire of her life, and tries to
make a life for herself and her child in Montreal.
Jeff and Mary’s story is one of meetings and
partings, many times repeated in varying locales,
a romantic plot based in the real divisiveness
of the times. Anyone familiar with the Italian
classic, I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed),
will recognize another version of adventures
involving love, separation, and reunion.

The novel will be issued this year (2002)
by Louisiana State University Press.


The Night Travellers | The Salt Line | The Snare | No Place for an Angel | Knights & Dragons
The Light in the Piazza | The Voice at the Back Door | This Crooked Way
Fire in the Morning | The Southern Woman | The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales
On the Gulf | Marilee | Jack of Diamonds | The Stories of Elizabeth Spencer
Ship Island | Landscapes of the Heart | For Lease or Sale


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