WHARTON, Edith

[560] pp.

Grosset & Dunlap

1929

8″ x 5 1/2″

Hudson River Bracketed features two strong protagonists – Vance Weston and Halo Spear. The former is an undereducated young man who arrives in New York with a keen desire to write. Halo Spear is a brilliant, accomplished young woman who introduces Vance to literature and they form a deep bond, which flourishes and endures despite the hardships of Vance’s life, the disappointments of Halo’s – and their respective marriages.