Set in the academic world of Harvard and Cambridge, this novel dramatizes the plight of the embattled American liberal in the 1950s. Its central character is Edward Cavan, a brilliant English professor, who commits suicide. His death sets off a shock wave among Cavan's friends -- and changes things for some of them forever."It is impossible not to be interested in (Sarton's characters) and concerned with what concerns them". -- The New Yorker
- ISBN10 0393302660
- ISBN13 9780393302660
- Publish Date 17 November 1985
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 14 May 1999
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 282
- Language English