The love eaters
Subtitle: The kiss of kin
By: by Mary Lee Settle ; with a new introduction by the author.
Contributors: Settle, Mary Lee.
Edition: University of South Carolina Press duel ed.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: West Virginia -- Fiction.
Other titles: Love eaters ; The kiss of kin; Kiss of kin.
Description: The novel that launched Mary Lee Settle's outstanding career, The Love Eaters is an acid satire of bedroom and community tragedy. A wealthy, small-town theatrical group finds itself at the direction of a man whose designs extend beyond the stage. As he begins to lose control, so do his players, revealing appetites they scarcely knew they had.

Settle's second novel, the highly acclaimed Kiss of Kin, centers on the funeral and last testament of Anna Mary Passmore. Drawn back to the Southern homeplace, members of the Passmore clan - all of whom nurse visions that the matriarch's bequests will solve their problems - grapple with the various ties that bind them and with the disturbing appearance of an unexpected heir. Published together for the first time, these novels offer compelling tales from Settle's early career.
Notes: First work published by Harper in 1954. Second work published by Harper in 1955.