Descend again

by Janet Burroway

"Millie Delaney, though she was liked and accepted by the people of the remote Arizona town in which she lived, was oddly isolated and set apart from them - set apart by her temperament, by her family background and by the width and scope of her intellectual and moral horizons. Suddenly into the small calm world she had built for herself two people erupted with shattering effect - Miguel, the Mexican boy she taught at school and who was perhaps an embryonic literary genius; and Toad, the tall, fair stranger from beyond the mountains. Miss Burroway portrays, with immense skill, delicacy and perception, the explosions they caused and their devastating aftermaths.
Janet Burroway, born in 1936, spent three years at Columbia before coming to Cambridge in 1958 to read English Literature. She has already published poems and short stories in various magazines and anthologies both here and in the United States[,] but 'Descend Again' is her first novel." [from the front flap]

212 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1960

About the author

Janet Burroway is the author of seven novels including The Buzzards, Raw Silk (runner up for the national Book award), Opening Nights, and Cutting Stone; a volume of poetry, Material Goods; a collection of essays, Embalming Mom; and two children's books, The Truck on the Track and The Giant Jam Sandwich. Her most recent plays, Medea With Child, Sweepstakes, Division of Property, and Parts of Speech, have received readings and productions in New York, London, San Francisco, Hollywood, and various regional theatres. Her Writing Fiction is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and a multi-genre textbook, Imaginative Writing, appeared in 2002. A B.A. from Barnard College and M.A. from Cambridge University, England, she was Yale School of Drama RCA-NBC Fellow 1960-61, and is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Florida State University in Tallahassee.