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<p><P>A woman writer's lyrical memoir of a summer with her artist husband in a remote Cape Cod dune shack.</p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p>Like a treasure from the sea, this memoir is polished, luminous and elemental. Poet Huntington and her artist husband, Bert Yarborough, spent three seasons in a single-room "dune shack" on a remote Provincetown beach she describes as "a place of such wild austere beauty that at first I had no word for its spaces, its dusty heat, the thrilling clarity of its air." Her exquisitely written journal recounts the just-married couple's adjustment to each other as lovers and artists, living in isolation and sensitive to the seasonal changes from May to September. Their solitude is broken by occasional guests, trips to town and visits with other summer migrants, who populate the shacks--originally built by squatters on the tip of Cape Cod--slowly being reclaimed by the National Park Service as their owners die off. Called "Euphoria," for the wind, their wooden shack measures 12 by 16 feet, has no electricity, and is 40-minutes down the beach from the nearest town. By no means a tale of privation, Huntington's memoir is full of rich observations of the

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Author

Huntington, Cynthia

Publisher

University Press of New England

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781584652946

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Nature