At Fault
By: Kate Chopin ; edited with an introduction and notes by Bernard Koloski.
Contributors: Koloski, Bernard, 1937-
Series: Penguin Classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780142437025
Copyright date: 2002
Subjects: Women plantation owners -- Fiction; Plantation life -- Fiction; Divorced men -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction; Creoles -- Fiction; Widows -- Fiction; Cane River Region (La.) -- Fiction; Louisiana -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Widowed at thirty, beautiful, resourceful Therese Lafirme is left alone to run her Louisiana plantation. When Therese falls in love with David Hosmer, a divorced businessman, her strong moral and religious convictions make it impossible for her to accept his marriage proposal. Her determined rejection sets the two on a tumultous path that involves Hosmer's troubled former wife, Fanny.

At Fault is set in the Post-Reconstruction rural South against a backdrop of economic devastation and simmering racial tensions. Written at the beginning of her career, it has parallels to Chopin's own life and contains characters and themes that prefigure her later works, including The Awakening.
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Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiii-xxvi).