Cascade
Maryanne O'Hara,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Penguin Group (USA)
Maryanne O'Hara,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Penguin Group (USA)
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143123514 (0143123513)
Publish date: April 30th 2013
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Cascade....a depression town that lost its playhouse. A playhouse that was a wedding gift to Asa by his father-in-law, William Hart, when he married his daughter Dez. Dez, who married not for love, but because she had no place to live and no money so she settled for Asa. Dez didn't realize tha...
This book has a lot going on. There is filial duty, art, marriage, illicit love, bigotry, bankruptcy and the threat of losing a lovely little town due to the thirsty residents of Boston.Dez puts her artistic career plans on the back-burner to take care of her ailing father. One decision follows anot...
It is 1934 in Cascade, Massachusetts, a small town in the western part of the state. Picturesque, bucolic, it was once a thriving summer vacation spot, with a gorgeous Shakespearean theater managed by the big-hearted, passionate William Hart. Then the crash happened, the Depression hit, and like e...