The setting for this piercing New England novel is the aptly named Starkfield, where, despite violently blue skies, the chill of cold and snow seems also to settle inside the hearts of the people who live there. Tethered to his farm, first by helpless parents, later by his querulous, hypochondriac wife Zeena, Ethan Frome ekes out a bare subsistence. Then Zeena's cousin, the impoverished, enchanting Mattie Silver comes to work for them, and, in Mattie, Ethan's hopes and dreams are rekindled. Yet theirs is a forbidden love, hemmed in by Zeena's presence. The impossible intensity in which the three exist has devastating consequences...
| ISBN: | 9781844083527 |
| Publication date: | 26th April 2007 |
| Author: | Edith Wharton |
| Publisher: | Virago Press Ltd an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 112 pages |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Historical Fiction Romance / Relationship Stories Classics |