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Then there's Wyatt Bayly's quiet fanaticism for planting peach trees, guided by his confidence that science would overwhelm any opposition from nature. And the doomed innocence of Thomas and Randall's friendship and their in-tandem education, an experiment that Wyatt Bayly oversees without regard for the blight that society is likely to attach to it. Tilghman's skill at presenting the clashing points of view for his characters is matched by his ability to evoke their place and time, whether it's a Catholic girls school in Paris or a black village on the peninsula called Tuckertown. There's never a false note, either, only poignant and surprising ones that linger long after the last page.
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