{"product_id":"the-orange-tree-9780803298644","title":"The Orange Tree","description":"As in Chekhov's play \u003ci\u003eThe Three Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e, the characters in Mildred Walker's \u003ci\u003eOrange Tree\u003c\/i\u003e search for meaning and happiness in their often uneventful middle-class lives--and yet from such a seemingly ordinary premise, subtle and defining drama ensues. Editing Walker's last novel, which the author reworked for nearly two decades, Carmen Pearson has found indications that the Chekhov play had in fact been a template that Walker contemporized in \u003ci\u003eThe Orange Tree\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003eThe novel centers on two families living in Boston in the 1970s: an older couple, Tiresa and Paulo Romano, and the newlyweds Olive and Ron Fifer. The fragile state of the older woman's health and the younger woman's marriage brings these two couples together in their separate and quietly desperate isolation, producing a combination of insight and compassion that only the finest story can evoke. In \u003ci\u003eThe Orange Tree\u003c\/i\u003e, Walker explores the relationships between men and women and offers an absorbing commentary on literature, writing, education, middle-class life, and the nature of friendship and of death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bison Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803298644\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 6.00w x 0.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/31\/2006 pg. 50\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2006 pg. 139\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mildred Walker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36643726459036,"sku":"9780803298644","price":12.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f217301a-a50b-440a-920f-ba76f7a47e24.jpg?v=1603857156","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-orange-tree-9780803298644","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}