Cambridge" It was probably because I was so often taken away from Cambridge when I was young that I loved it as much as I did . . . " So begins this novel-from-life by the best-selling author of "Girl, Interrupted, " an exploration of memory and nostalgia set in the 1950s among the academics and artists of Cambridge, Massachusetts. London, Florence, Athens: Susanna, the precocious narrator of "Cambridge, " would rather be home than in any of these places. Uprooted from the streets around Harvard Square, she feels lost and excluded in all the locations to which her father s career takes the family. She comes home with relief but soon enough wonders if outsiderness may be her permanent condition. Written with a sharp eye for the pretensions and charms of the intellectual classes, "Cambridge" captures the mores of an era now past, the ordinary lives of extraordinary people in a singular part of America, and the delights, fears, and longings of childhood." |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 5 |
Section 3 | 9 |
Section 4 | 35 |
Section 5 | 55 |
Section 6 | 75 |
Section 7 | 111 |
Section 8 | 116 |
Section 9 | 133 |
Section 10 | 147 |
Section 11 | 181 |
Section 12 | 212 |
Section 13 | 245 |
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