The Internet Book Database of Fiction

#	Date	Publisher	Binding	Cover
1	1976-00-00	Vanguard

Blurb:: At the center of this new novel by one of America"s finest writers is the frustrated love of a man in his forties for a very young girl whom he meets by accident and befriends. Kasch is a lonely eccentric who has survived a bitterly disappointing marriage only to fall in love, against his will, with a fourteen-year-old named Laney. An inhabitant of a distant, improverished region -- Childwold -- Laney embodies all that Kasch finds fatally irresistible. As Kasch succumbs to the beauty and mystery of Childwold and Laney"s family, his control over his destiny loosens and he is plunged into personal catastrophe, even as Laney and her family are freed. Childwold concerns itself with the inexplicable emotions of the human spirit, especially as it is embodied in love and expressed by men and women and children speaking in thier own voices. It is the story of an enchantment and its inevitable consequences.