Queen Lear Author:Molly Keane Eight-year-old Nicandra is named after a horse. She lives with her parents, Sir Demot and Lady Forester, and her aunt Mrs. Fox-Collier (Aunt Tossie) at Deer Forest, an Irish country mansion, and loves to love and be loved. One day as she prattles about the grounds visiting, this delightful structure of life is struck as if by lightning: her moth... more »er has committed an act too dreadful ever to be spoken of and vanishes forever from Deer Forest.
Nicandra grows up yearning to love and to give. Frayed memories of her mother's perfume and a missing stableman vaguely disturb her. When the dandy Andrew catches her eye, Nicandra marries him.
Queen Lear tells the story of this frightful marriage and a world that has passed into oblivion. In it Molly Keane cooly dissects the tattered manners and withering society of the Anglo-Irish upper class, creating a winsomely evil comedy that starts before the last world wars and ends just after.« less
ISBN-13: 9780525247999 ISBN-10: 0525247998 Publication Date: 9/26/1989 Pages:232 Edition:1st American ed Rating: