Whipple's Castle An American Novel by Thomas Williams

Whipple's Castle
An American Novel
Thomas Williams
New York: Random House
Copyright 1968
Book club edition
535 pages

The binding is in acceptable condition and the pages are clean except for a bookplate in front. The black cover shows light wear. The jacket is toned and has a small amount of edge wear.   Good. Hardcover.

Whipple's castle is a great Victorian mansion set on a hill in the imaginary town of Leah, New Hampshire. In the story we come to know the Whipples. The mother, Henrietta, once a pretty woman who bore her children in love and raised them in confusion. Harvey, the father, endowed with strength of purpose: he always got what he wanted until an accident changed desire and determination to greed, a hunger for money that had no limits. And there's Wood, the handsome eldest son, silent and sensitive, loved by women, but unable to give love; David, smart, superior, a superb athlete, who learns to use his mind as well as his body; Kate, the daughter, exquisitely lovely, intelligent, who fears she will be loved only for her beauty; and Horace, the youngest son, shy, awkward, ungainly, tormented by nightmare demons who give him no peace. (#04)