The surface of Earth
By: Reynolds Price.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Atheneum
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 491
Subjects: Mayfield family (Fictitious characters) -- Fiction; Southern States -- Fiction
Description: A family saga set in North Caroline and Virginia between 1903 and 1944 depicts three generations of the Kendals and the Mayfields. Sixteen-year-old Eva Kendal elopes with her thirty-two-year-old Latin teacher, Forrest Mayfield. Before long, the suicide of Eva's mother brings Eva and her young son home, where they remain for years.