The Cottage Industry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781509254316)

David Enders, pilot for the French Army during the Great War, returns to Connecticut after wandering post-war France with a condition similar to shell-shocked men from the trenches. At home he must contend with a difficult father, a sister locked in a mysterious post-influenza coma, and a volatile country still in the grips of wartime paranoia and civil liberty restrictions. He finds work building houses in Old Lyme, a summertime town of bootleggers, rum runners, flappers, clammers, crooked deputies, and the famous Old Lyme Art Colony whose impressionist painters don't want their bucolic landscapes marred by cookie-cutter cottages. Enders falls in love with one of those artists, but encircled by suffocating customs, illiberal laws, and petty criminals, they're looking for an escape.

Author: Edward McSweegan
ISBN-10: 1509254315
ISBN-13: 9781509254316
Publisher: Wild Rose Press
Language: English
Published: 06/05/2024
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.68d