In this Our LifeNovel narrated by sixty-year-old Asa Timberlake, scion of a decaying southern aristocracy. His wife is a bed-ridden hypochondriac. They have two daughters with male names: Roy, the sensible, older daughter, and Stanley, the spolied beauty who steals all of her older sister's boyfriends. |
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