Escapade
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Book Overview
In 1913, at the age of nineteen, Elsie Dunn--later to be known as Evelyn Scott--turned her back on the genteel Southern world she was born into and ran off to Brazil with a married Tulane University dean more than twice her age. Living in tropical exile under assumed names, the couple produced a son and endured a grueling series of hardships and failures that would provide Scott with the raw material for Escapade, first published in 1923 amid expressions...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0813916410
ISBN13:9780813916415
Release Date:September 1995
Publisher:University of Virginia Press
Length:321 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.5" x 8.3"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
A writer worthy of rediscovery
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Scott's fictional account of her time is Brazil is a fascinating precursor to the Existentialist fiction of Sartre, Camus, and Walker Percy. A brutally Freudian portrayl, 'Escapade' is not the fun-filled read the title may lead many readers to believe it to be, but it is an honest and compelling account of a rough period in the life of a courageous and daring woman.
Very descriptive stream of conciousness book.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
I very much liked the book Escapade by Evelyn Scott. Although it does get rather dull at some points because it has no plot line, I was very enthrawled with the way the main character thinks. Evelyn Scott gives an accurate description of how the mind functions in a stream of conciousness.
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