Ceremony in Lone Tree (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wright Morris
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Mid-twentieth century
- Setting: Nebraska
- Principal Characters: Tom Scanlon, Lois McKee, Walter McKee, Maxine Momeyer, Bud Momeyer, Lee Roy Momeyer, Edna Ewing, “Colonel” Clyde Ewing, Gordon McKee, Calvin McKee, Etoile McKee, Gordon Boyd, W. B. Jennings,
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s
- Locales: Nebraska
The Story:
Tom Scanlon had spent his life in the Lone Tree Hotel in Lone Tree, Nebraska, now a ghost town. The winter before he was ninety, his daughter Lois and her husband, Walter, took him on a trip to Mexico. There they ran into Walter’s old friend Gordon Boyd, who had left Nebraska because he could not have Lois. Later, Walter wrote Boyd and invited him to a reunion in Lone Tree late in March, on Tom’s ninetieth birthday.
After much soul-searching, Boyd left Acapulco in his dilapidated car and headed north. In a Nevada town, where tourists came to see nuclear...
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