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Original Title:	Colony
ISBN:	0061099708 (ISBN13: 9780061099700)
Edition Language:	English

Colony

Anne Rivers Siddons

Paperback | Pages: 640 pages

Rating: 4.07 | 10717 Users | 331 Reviews

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Title	:	Colony
Author	:	Anne Rivers Siddons
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 640 pages
Published	:	September 3rd 2002 by HarperTorch (first published 1992)
Categories	:	Fiction. American. Southern. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Romance

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"An outstanding multigenerational novel...We are hooked from the moment we meet Maude."  --New York Times

An unforgettable story of love, acceptance, and tradition from New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons.

When Maude Chambliss first arrives at Retreat, the seasonal home of her husband's aristocratic family, she is a nineteen-year-old bride fresh from South Carolina's Low Country. Among the patrician men and women who reside in the summer colony on the coast of Maine, her gypsy-like beauty and impulsive behavior immediately brand her an outsider. She, as well as everyone else, is certain she will never fit in. And of course, she doesn't...at first.

But over the many summers she spends there, Maude comes to cherish life in the colony, as she does the people who share it with her. There is her husband Peter, consumed with a darkness of spirit; her adored but dangerously fragile children; her domineering mother-in-law, who teaches her that it is the women who possess the strength to keep the colony intact; and Maine native Micah Willis, who is ultimately Maude's truest friend.

This brilliant novel, rich with emotion, is filled with appealing, intense, and indomitable characters. Anne Rivers Siddons paints a portrait of a woman determined to preserve the spirit of past generations—and the future of a place where she became who she is...a place called Colony.

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3.5 stars. I mostly enjoyed it. It's definitely pulpy and soap-opera-ish in places (there was one scene where Maude shoots a German spy who had washed ashore from a U-boat or some shit and invaded her home and honestly it's hilariously ridiculous). Also the snobby maneuverings of WASP summer vacationers are not nearly as interesting or poignant as Siddons wants them to be, and the story does tend to drag on. The book definitely would have been better if it was about two hundred pages shorter.

When Maude Chambliss first arrives at Retreat, the seasonal home of her husband's aristocratic family, she is a nineteen year old fresh faced bride direct from South Carolina convinced that she will never fit in with everyone. Everyone believes the same, until she begins to make friends. As time goes by, Maude falls in love with the colony and the people who live there.There is Maude's husband, Peter, consumed with a darkness of spirit; her adored but dangerously fragile children; her



My high school English teacher gave me this book to read - and I loved it. I think it is Anne Rivers Siddons masterpiece.

The prose here can be dense, particularly at the beginning when Siddons spends a lot of time describing houses and streets and swamps and beaches and cliffs. She's not bad at description -- there's a solid late-twentieth-century occasionally-literary middlebrow quality to her writing -- but the first fifty or so pages felt like a slog. Once it starts getting soapy, though, it's hard to put down; it's a nearly perfect beach read. So much drama for one family! Ultimately all those descriptions

All I've heard about this book is that it is Siddons' best book. I would still give that honor to Hill Towns, but this deserves all of these 4 stars. It's a love story that progresses over many decades while the main characters marry and try to raise a family, each summer being spent in the colony, a town in Maine aptly named Retreat. Retreat soothes those who come, but also has the gossipy old bitties found in most small towns. After a while the characters have endured such tragedies in their

Hmmmm... Can't quite decide how I feel about this book. On one hand, I liked the descriptions and was really able to feel I was in Maine on a vacation. On the other hand, it was a place I'm not sure I wanted to be. This family and the others in the Colony looked so pretty and put together on the outside, but on the inside there is so much sin and consequence. I thought that it was good in that it didn't gloss over the terrible road bad choices can take someone on - but it also made me sad that