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In melodramas there are heroes to unveil the villain; in Dingley Falls there are only people like the rest of us.
In the sleepy town of Dingley Falls, Connecticut, something funny is going on. Strange forces are pulling together the oddest of couples: a mild-mannered matron and a lascivious avant-garde poet; a sleek headmaster and a shy young curate; a hippie librarian and the wayward daughter of a local tycoon. Whats more, mailboxes are being stuffed with shockingly violent hate letters, even as a mysterious ailment takes the lives of perfectly healthy people. Not to mention the strange lights flashing in the depths of the forest...
With a sparkling range of characters who hurtle through an intricate and often hilarious journey, Michael Malone offers a sublime joyride in his classic novel.
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Copyright 1980, 2002, 2010 by Michael Malone
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The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious or are used fictitiously. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental and not intended by the author.
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Originally published in New York in 1980 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Malone, Michael.
Dingley Falls : a novel / by Michael Malone.
p. cm.
1. City and town lifeFiction. 2. Anonymous lettersFiction. 3.
ConnecticutFiction. 4. Hate mailFiction. I. Title.
PS3563.A43244 D56 2002
813.54dc21
2002006928
Ive never understood why those who write ctions should not acknowledge debts as publicly as those who write facts. Id like to thank Mrs. Arthur E. Case for her generous friendship, and Dr. Barbara Otto and Dr. J.J. Quilligan, Jr., for consenting with such kind cheer to diagnose the peculiar symptoms afflicting Dingleyans. During the four years it has taken to nish Dingley Falls , numbers of readers, both in and out of what is for some odd reason called the industry, have given me good criticism, wise advice, and warm support. My heartfelt appreciation to them all.
THE TOWN
Beanie Dingley Abernathy
A Juno-esque heiress to what is left of the Dingley fortune.
Winslow Abernathy
Beanies husband, a lawyer.
Arthur Abernathy
Their stolid son and Winslows law partner; Dingley Fallss rst selectman.
Lance Abernathy
Arthurs good-looking fraternal twin; an amateur tennis player.
Limus Barnum
Unsavory owner of local antiques, hobbies, and appliances store.
Sidney Blossom
Town librarian and former hippie.
William Bredforet
Roguish octogenarian; Ernest Ransoms great-uncle.
Mary Bredforet
His wife.
Tracy, Mrs. Vincent Canopy
A perky widowed patroness of the arts; Beanies childhood friend.
Father Patrick Crisp
Elderly Catholic priest at Our Lady of Mercy in Madder.
Louie Daytona
Gorgeous bisexual sculptor and ex-convict befriended by Tracy Canopy.
Bill Deeds
The Bredforets cranky, eighty-year-old, African-American chauffeur.
Dr. Ruth Deeds
His granddaughter; an eager young internist at the federal Center for Disease Control; a Marxist feminist.
Ramona Dingley
Tennis champion of 1927; town selectman; wry caretaker of the past; invalid seventy-three-year-old distant relative of Beanie.
Jonathan Fields
Exquisite, difdent curate at St. Andrews, Dingley Fallss Episcopal Church.
John (Hawk) Haig
Police chief; a big, handsome man in his early forties.
Judith Sorrow Haig
His wife; a beautiful woman with a heart condition; postmistress of Dingley Falls.
A.A. Hayes
The alcoholic editor of the Dingley Day ; southern expatriate; sardonic failure.
Junebug, Mrs. A.A. Hayes
His migraine-prone wife.
Tara and Suellen Hayes
Two of their children.
Cecil Hedgerow
Widower; third selectman; unenthusiastic realtor.
Polly Hedgerow
His sixteen-year-old daughter; a bookworm, gossip, and sleuth.
Maynard Henry
Unemployed construction worker; Vietnam veteran.
Chin Lam Henry
His nineteen-year-old wife; a Vietnamese refugee.
Father Sloan Highwick
Affable sixty-six-year-old Rector of St. Andrews.
Mrs. Highwick
His mother; a senile painter.
Prudence Lattice
Lonely spinster in her sixties; owner of a tea shop that has fallen on hard times.
Joe MacDermott
Hawk Haigs assistant.
Sarah OReilly MacDermott
His wife; gabby, ebullient cashier at the Madder A&P; mother of ve boys; self-elected best friend of Judith Haig.
Alf Marco
Dingley Fallss colorless postman.
Sebastian Marco
His younger brother; a moody gardener.
Carl Marco, Sr.
Their older brother; a self-made Madderite merchant; tract developer; aspiring philanthropist.
Carl Marco, Jr.
His son; a muscular ophthalmologist.
Sgt. Fred Myers
A desk clerk at the Argyle jail; a philosopher.
Orchid ONeal
Sarah MacDermotts widowed older sister; a house cleaner.
Jerry Packer
Bartender at the Dingley Club.
Luke Packer
His seventeen-year-old son; a bright, restless lm buff.
Susan Packer
Lukes older sister; secretary to Abernathy & Abernathy.
Richard Rage
Lascivious avant-garde poet.
Ernest Ransom
The most influential man in Dingley Falls; the meticulous, methodical president of Ransom Bank.
Priss, Mrs. Ernest Ransom
His chic, satiric wife; college friend of Beanie and Tracy.
Emerald Ransom
Their eldest child; a practiced beauty.
Kate Ransom
Emeralds younger sister; a Vassar senior long wooed by Sidney Blossom.
Ray Ransom
Their son; a braggart.
Walter Saar
Headmaster of Alexander Hamilton Academy; a sleek, witty, aesthete homosexual secretly possessed of most of the old-fashioned virtues.
Otto Scaper
Fat, gruff physician in his seventies.
Sammy Smalter
Town pharmacist; a midget.
Coleman Sniffell
Assistant editor of the Dingley Day .
Ida Sniffell
His mercilessly cheerful wife; Dr. Scapers nurse.
Jack and Peggy Strummer
Nice people.
Joy Strummer
Their beautiful blond teenage daughter; Pollys best friend.
Wanda Tojek
The Ransoms maid.
Evelyn, Mrs. Blanchard Troye
Wispy, lovely widow of a French industrialist; childhood friend of Beanie and Tracy.
Irene Wright
Ransoms secretary.
OPERATION ARCHANGEL
Comdr. Hector Brickhart
Former USC tackle; warrior in the Pacic; chief of naval intelligence; now on the board of ALASORE Oil.
Bob (Bucky) Eagerly
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