Maiden in a Tower (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Wallace Stegner
- First Published: 1954
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The mid-1950's
- Setting: Salt Lake City, Utah
- Principal Characters: Kimball Harris, McBride, Holly
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, United States or Americans, Sex or sexuality, Death or dying, Undertakers or undertaking
- Locales: Salt Lake City, UT
The Story
Kimball Harris returns to Salt Lake City, where he attended college, to make funeral arrangements for his last near relative, his Aunt Margaret. Tired from his long drive across Nevada from San Francisco, he checks into a hotel, awash in nostalgia for his “giddy and forgotten youth.” When he visits the Merrill funeral parlor, where his aunt has been taken, he is surprised to discover that he knows the building well. Holly, a beautiful young woman who is at the center of many of Harris's recollections of his college days, once lived in an apartment in this old...
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