The Malefactors Art and Poetry A chance encounter with Patrice

A chance encounter with Patrice Ambard

and yet its concern is coldly theoretical

The last of Undset’s modern background novels

and author of more than one hundred and seventy books

The Malefactors Art and Poetry A chance encounter with PatriceBy Caroline Gordon The Malefactors so perfectly captures the enervated carnality and marmoreal frigidity of the Lost Generation, and the ensuing need and the desire for meaning, that Flannery OConnor called it undoubtedly the most serious and successful fictional treatment of a conversion by an American writer to date. Tom and Vera Claiborne have settled at Blenckers Bridge with a motley assortment of friends, family, and literati. Despite life at