The Grave and the Figure Eight

Résumé du livre

After WWI, young Terence Garth - wounded both in body and soul - returns from France to the Western Kentucky farm of his wealthy uncle. He learns that his uncle has recently married Isabel, a beautiful but disturbed woman, who is near Terences'own age. Despite their wishes to the contrary, the two young persons discover their mutual attraction intensifying until they become involved in a course leading to adultery, betrayal, deception, depression, alcoholism, and murder, as they find themselves reenacting a classic myth of condemned love and internal destruction.