Original sins
By: Lisa Alther.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf; distributed by Random House
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 592
Subjects: City and town life -- Fiction; Friendship -- Fiction; Children -- Fiction; Tennessee -- Fiction
Description: Five friends-- Sally, Emily, Jed, Raymond, and Donny-- spend their Tennessee childhoods trading dreams in the branches of the Castle Tree. As children of the 1950s, they are filled with wild ambitions and determined to live gaudy, glamorous lives. The ties that bind them begin to dissolve when they become teenagers, yet the story continues-- and each of these old friends travels in a direction that he or she could have never anticipated.