Larger	The Maytrees Author: Annie Dillard
	Book Information Publisher: HarperCollins Book Type: Hardcover Rating: 8 ISBN-13: 9780061239533 - ISBN-10: 0061239534 Publication Date: 6/1/2007 Pages: 224

Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty. As he courts Lou, just out of college, her stillness draws him. Hands-off, he hides his serious wooing, and idly shows her his poems.

In spare, elegant prose, Dillard traces the Maytrees' decades of loving and longing. They live cheaply among the nonconformist artists and writers that the bare tip of Cape Cod attracts. Lou takes up painting. When their son Petie appears, their innocent Bohemiam friend Deary helps care for him. But years later it is Deary who causes the town to talk.