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American Horror tales, Fiction, general
At the crest of the worst flood in Perdido, Alabama's history, mysterious newcomer Elinor Dammert is rescued from the uppermost floor of an abandoned hotel. The town soon grows to love Elinor in spite of her unspoken past and her eccentric habits, and Oscar Caskey, head of the town's most powerful and influential family, soon takes her for his bride.
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Unpretentious, bleak, classical in form and effortless.
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Michael McDowell was born in 1950 in Enterprise, Alabama, and graduated from T.R. Miller High in Brewton, Alabama. He received a B.A. and an M.A. from Harvard College, and a Ph.D in English from Brandeis University in 1978, based on a dissertation entitled "American Attitudes Toward Death, 1825–1865." His extensive and diverse collection of death memorabilia, including items such as death pins, photographs and plaques from infant caskets, was acquired by Chicago's Northwestern University in 2013. As an adult, McDowell lived in Medford, Massachusetts, where he taught screenwriting at Boston University and Tufts University while continuing to write commissioned screenplays. McDowell's partner
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