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The Women on the Porch

Caroline Gordon

出版	Rowman & Littlefield, 1971
主題	Fiction / General
ISBN	08154039339780815403937
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Cx5fmApT2UsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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The novel follows a woman's flight from Manhattan and her unfaithful husband to her rural ancestral home. Catherine Chapman, a married woman, living in New York one day finds that her husband is having an affair. She immediately packs her bags and sets off, with her dog, down to the family home in rural Kentucky, leaving a note for her husband telling him only that she has gone but not where. Her husband, Jim is, of course, lost without her and dithers around New York, unsure of what to do. Eventually, he finds out where she is and follows her. In the meantime, she has found another life and another man. Gordon makes two main comparisons. The first is the one between the rural world of Kentucky and New York. In New York, time is linear. It's always today, it's always now. Down in Kentucky, time moves in a completely different way, the past and the present mingling easily and naturally together. Southern time, where the past is just as important now as the present, has never been so expertly portrayed as in this book. It's not only the concept of past and present time that is different between the two. We might be tempted to think that, in New York, people are always busy while down in rural Kentucky they are not. The contrast that Gordon so expertly makes is that, while New Yorkers may seem to be busy, all too often time hangs heavy on their hands. There is no such concern down in Kentucky, where even sitting on the porch is a fruitful occupation.--themodernnovel.org.