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Plot Summary of From the Terrace

"Emotionally stunted by a cold father, Alfred Eaton fails to do the difficult things necessary to establish loving relationships of his own. Because he fails to make timely decisions and act on his own he winds up a middle aged man with comfortable material resources but no meaningful vocation and an increasingly problematic marriage with a woman he truly loves. O'Hara provides plenty of sex as well as a fine fictionalized account of the USA from 1900-1950.

Crested sapwood supportable noradrenaline runout.

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Riley Wallihan, Resident Scholar

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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book? - thoughtful
Time/era of story - 1930's-1950's
Family, struggle with Yes
Struggle with: - Wife
Internal struggle/realization? Yes
Struggle over - midlife crisis
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - business executive
Age: - long lived adults
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Female
Age: - 20's-30's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a substantial amount
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 8 (a significant amount)
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast
Misc setting - fancy mansion

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - actual description of hetero sex - descript. of female anat. (the big B's)
Weird Victorian/Shakespearean English? Yes
Unusual Style: - a lot of flashback and forwards
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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