After World War I, young Terence Garthawounded both in body and in soulareturns from France to the Western Kentucky farm of his wealthy uncle and benefactor. He learns that his uncle has recently married Isabel, a beautiful but disturbed woman, who is near to Terenceas own age. Despite their wishes to the contrary, the two young persons discover their mutual attraction intensifying, until they become involved in a headlong course leading to adultery, betrayal, deception, depression, alcoholism, and murder, as they find ...
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After World War I, young Terence Garthawounded both in body and in soulareturns from France to the Western Kentucky farm of his wealthy uncle and benefactor. He learns that his uncle has recently married Isabel, a beautiful but disturbed woman, who is near to Terenceas own age. Despite their wishes to the contrary, the two young persons discover their mutual attraction intensifying, until they become involved in a headlong course leading to adultery, betrayal, deception, depression, alcoholism, and murder, as they find themselves reenacting a classic myth of condemned love and internal destruction. aAnd in hell, my Master named and showed mea]Tristan and Isolde and a thousand others whom love had driven to their ruin!a Dante, Inferno, Canto V.
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