The Natural History of Uncas Metcalfe
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: May 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780312342777
Subjects: Literary; Fiction / Literary; Psychological; Fiction; Fiction - General; Fathers and daughters; Parent and adult child; Teacher-student relationships
First sentence: Uncas Metcalfe's Raleigh had been stolen.
Description: "Uncas Metcalfe is a sixty-five-year-old botany professor from a once prosperous central New York town, whose habitat is changing much too quickly: his wife is ill, his daughter has returned home, and an unusual new friendship unexpectedly stirs up memories of an almost forgotten infidelity. Uncas is rooted in a life of plants and manners. When his routine is upended by the menacing demands of a former student, Uncas finds his comfortably obstinate nature at odds with his family's growing impatience and a newfound, terrifying uncertainty."--Publisher's description.