Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Marjorie Kellogg
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Plot: Social issues/romance
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: A small town and a seaside resort somewhere in the United States
- Principal Characters: Junie Moon, Arthur, Warren, Mario
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, United States or Americans, Love or romance, Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Vacations, Terminal illness or terminally ill, Diseases, Hospitals
- Locales: United States
The Novel
When Junie Moon, Warren, and Arthur decide to set up housekeeping together after being released from the hospital, it is because no one else wants them. This arrangement of convenience soon becomes a strong, three-way emotional reliance, however, when the three “freaks” move into a ramshackle house on the edge of town. Marjorie Kellogg’s short but richly textured first novel chronicles their brief life together as a trio of outcasts united against a cold and unaccepting world.
All three main characters are profoundly and permanently disabled. Junie Moon...
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