![]() ![]() And eventually he must face the world beyond Arcadia. He falls in love with Helle, Handy's lovely, troubled daughter. While Arcadia rises and falls, Bit, too, ages and changes. Arcadia's inhabitants include Handy, the charismatic leader his wife, Astrid, a midwife Abe, a master carpenter Hannah, a baker and historian and Abe and Hannah's only child, Bit. Arcadia follows this romantic utopian dream from its hopeful start through its heyday. ![]() In the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land, founding a commune centered on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House. "Even the most incidental details vibrate with life Arcadia wends a harrowing path back to a fragile, lovely place you can believe in." -Ron Charles, The Washington Post But it is by no means this book's only kind of splendor." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times Groff's prose is one of the best things about Arcadia. A staggering portrait of a crumbling utopia, this "timeless and vast" novel filled with the "raw beauty" beautifully depicts an idyllic commune in New York State - and charts its eventual yet inevitable downfall (Janet Maslin, The New York Times). ![]()
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