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The Vietnam war is the background for this haunting, well-written love story, but we see no battle, only the inner battle that ripped families apart in that era of drama and protest. Mary Kerr Harbison is a dancer, gifted by nature, and oppressed by her mother and her conservative family. She meets Jefferson Blaise, intellectual, radically opposed to the war, and dedicated to what he believes is the course of right and justice. From that moment on, her life becomes flight and loneliness as she marries Jeff, goes underground, and ends up in Canada. . . . More than a story of an ill-fated pair of lovers, this is an exploration of the ideas and convictions that changed the face of America.Baton Rouge Advocate
A story as prickly and indigestible as real life, or real history, which cuts no corners and gives no quarter. Atlanta Journal-Constitution
An acute novel of conflicting loyalties and ambivalent love . . . The Night Travellers takes a decade scarred by public catastrophes and reminds us of their reverberations in the private lives of every American.Chicago Sun-Times
zabeth Spencer is the author of nine novels, including The Voice at the Back Door, The Salt Line, and This Crooked Way; four short fiction collections; and a memoir. Born and raised in Mississippi, she lived in Montreal from 1958 to 1986 and now makes her home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
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