Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Edvard Munch and Thomas Cole. A man who has buried his own name after his father's disgrace keeps house for his mother on a Cape Cod bluff, and does nothing whatever — until a right-of-way, a millionaire's daughter and a piece of town politics oblige him to be somebody again. Lincoln built a whole career out of one place; the town meeting in this one is as good as anything in American regional fiction, and Roscoe's uselessness is diagnosed rather than excused. Fifty-eight plates by painters from Winslow Homer to Edvard Munch, taking in harbors, homeward rowers and houses by the water, keep the salt light of the Cape on every page.
