"The road from Boston to Cape Cod is long and straight and ruthless. Two black slashes cutting through the sandy country of pine and scrub oak which never grow to any size before a motorist throws out a cigarette on to the dry grass and levels everything neatly down again. In winter, the cars carry Boston businessmen in hats worn straight and true, and women with plastic statues of the Sacred Heart suctioned to the dashboard. In summer, the cars are full of families, and trail boats and little houses behind them. When the road was made, for the locust families to redouble their assault on Cape Cod, hills were leveled, hollows filled, the landscape brought to order. The bare scrub land is empty since everyone has gone top-heavily to the coast, like passengers crowding to the ship's rail."
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(192 pages; 1st edition 1966, published by William Heinemann)
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Monica Dickens
, (10 May 1915 – 25 December 1992) was an English best-selling novelist, memoirist, autobiographer, and the author of the 1973 non-fiction book Talking of Horses. She was appointed in the (MBE).
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