The misunderstanding is size XXL. After a terrible storm, we discover in his workshop the last sculpture of the local artist which has disappeared without leaving an address: it is in reality a garden chair struck by lightning. Very few people know about it. Should the municipality acquire the object that it takes to be a daring representation of Apollo? The small town of East Head is in turmoil. The bohemian Conrad Swann abandoned his children. Serafina, Polly, Dinah and Mike are left to their own devices. They invent terrible monsters, build a tree house, empty the pantry. Around them gravitate a young notary, an authoritarian socialite, city councilors, a stonemason, provincial intellectuals. It's the 1950s. War and deprivation are still on everyone's minds.
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People get up in arms, give receptions that turn sour, and everyone is jealous of London. An architect built the pavilion…
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