A Rage to Live
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: July 22, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 705
ISBN-13: 9780679602668
Subjects: Modern fiction; Pennsylvania; O'hara, John, 1905-1970; Fiction - General; Fiction; Upper class families; Literary; Biography & Autobiography / General; Classics; Married women; Social life and customs; Upper class women
First sentence: It rained lightly on the morning of Wednesday, July 4, 1917, and the Festival Committee met to decide whether to postpone the Festival until the following Saturday.
Description: A Rage to Live is a large-scale social chronicle of America set against the backdrop of Fort Penn, Pennsylvania, a city with a dynamic history, both public and personal. The Caldwells are its leading family, and Grace Caldwell Tate is the dramatic symbol of their dominance. Her avidity for life carries her through an impetuous childhood, marriage, violent extramarital affairs, scandal, disaster, and her own kind of triumphs.

Idealists and libertines, public-spirited and self-seeking citizens, officials and tradesmen and crusaders, men of violence and goodwill, and women of fierce possessiveness and tenderness form the pageant of memorable characters.
Notes: Modern Library