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The novels of John Cowper Powys are like none other containing the romanticextravagance and comic exuberance of the great nineteenthcentury novels withthe selfconscious depth and introspection of the great Modernists. MaidenCastle portrays in pointillist detail the complexities of sexual and romanticfeeling that bedevil an eccentric cast of characters and explores thepsychological idiosyncrasies that fuel their hopes and dreams fantasies andfailures.At the center of the novel is the aptly named Dud Noman a historical novelistwidowed after a yearlong unconsummated marriage to a woman who continues tohaunt him. Inspired by pity and his own deep loneliness Dud takes WizzieRavelston an itinerant circus performer into his home and heart. Theirawkward yet endearing efforts to create a life together unfold in counterpointto the romantic and familial relationships that sizzle and simmer in thevillage of Dorchester. Yet even as the characters in Maiden Castle strugglewith the perplexities of love desire and faith readjusting their sights andaffections it is the looming fortress of Maiden Castle that exerts theotherworldly force that irrevocably determines the course of their lives. «
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