The Ice Wagon Going Down the Street (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Mavis de Trafford Young
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: 1950-1960
- Setting: Toronto, with extensive flashbacks to Paris and Geneva
- Principal Characters: Peter Frazier, Sheilah, Agnes Brusen
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Memory, Emotions, Hallucinations or illusions, Wealth
- Locales: Paris, France, Toronto, Canada, Geneva, Switzerland
The Story
Peter and Sheilah Frazier console themselves on Sunday mornings by remembering the people they met during the decade they spent trying to live a charmed life abroad. Now they are “back where they started,” in Toronto, living with Lucille, Peter's down-to-earth sister. They do not have plans for the future, and they have become soured by “the international thing”; unlike other expatriates, Peter was neither “crooked” nor “smart” enough to find shady business opportunities in postwar Europe. Now as in the past, they try to believe that “hazy and...
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