Travel
Holiday in Coastal Maine (Sleeps 4) + Signed Copy of Maggie Shipstead's New England Novel
- Item Number
- 102
- Estimated Value
- 1500 USD
- Opening Bid
- 800 USD
Item Description
Spend a week in a beautifully-appointed two-bedroom, shore cottage in central Maine. Enjoy this lovely home with a fireplace, French doors and a large deck looking out onto acres of meadow sloping to a cove and a view of the hills. One bedroom with twin beds, one with queen size.
The winning bidder will also receive a signed copy of Maggie Shipstead's Seating Arrangements (a finalist for the 2012 First Novel Prize):
Maggie Shipstead’s irresistible social satire, set on an exclusive New England island over a wedding weekend in June, provides a deliciously biting glimpse into the lives of the well-bred and ill-behaved. Winn Van Meter is heading for his family’s retreat on pristine Waskeke, normally a haven of calm. But for the next three days this sanctuary will be overrun by tipsy revelers as Winn prepares for the marriage of his daughter Daphne to the affable young scion Greyson Duff. Winn’s wife, Biddy, has planned the wedding with military precision, but arrangements are sideswept by a storm of salacious misbehavior and intractable lust: Daphne’s sister, Livia, who has recently had her heart broken by the son of her father’s oldest rival, is an eager target for the seductive wiles of Greyson’s best man; Winn, instead of reveling in his patriarchal duties, is tormented by his long-standing crush on Daphne’s beguiling bridesmaid Agatha; and the bride and groom find themselves presiding over a spectacle of misplaced desire, marital infidelity, and monumental loss of faith in the rituals of American life. Hilarious, keenly intelligent, and commandingly well written, Shipstead’s deceptively frothy first novel is a piercing rumination on desire, on love and its obligations, and on the dangers of leading an inauthentic life, heralding the debut of an exciting new literary voice.
Item Special Note
Dates subject to availability
Donated By:
Sharen Benenson
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