In a woodland glen a young poet and the girl he loves agree to call themselves Thyrsis and Corydon. He is consumed by the book he means to write; she longs to share his ideals. Their marriage brings hunger, illness, a child and bitter quarrels about sex, money and freedom, as Sinclair draws closely on his own first marriage and early years as a writer.
A raw autobiographical novel from the author of The Jungle, for readers of literary lives and marriage fiction. Download the free EPUB.