Dead Season on Martha's Vineyard

The story centers on Angela and Lutie, who have been married for over thirty years. Early in the book, I chronicle their upbringings; while Angela was sheltered and filled with the good things in life, thanks to her mother's personality and desires, Lutie's life was filled with hard work and the tragic deaths of his parents and an eventual brutal period of service in Korea. After the war, he puts himself through college and takes a banker's job in the very bank run by Angela's stepfather, and so they meet, fall in love, and marry. After the death of Angela's mother, in the early eighties, the couple decide to accept the legacy she left of a fine home on the Island of Martha's Vineyard, where much of Angela's growing up took place, and substantial investments to guarantee a genteel lifestyle. The transition from their home of three decades in Pittsburgh to a life of leisure on the Island takes some getting used to, but they soon come to enjoy it. In fact, before long Angela has taken on the mantle left by her mother as hostess and renowned artist in the community. Meanwhile, the unexpected reappearance of a hated old combat soldier from Korea thrusts Lutie back into that time period and that mentality and begin to take its toll. This, combined with an unwelcomed population burst on the Island, starts to wear on his normally imperturbable psyche. Angela observes the changes in her husband, which is never more noticeable than the night he attacks and beats up a crowd of rowdy teenagers breaking glass and scattering trash on his favorite beach. The real trouble will not begin until he discovers his loathsome old comrade frozen and dead in the house of a friend, closed for the winter. A vision of a chainsaw passes through his head, and suddenly he has a plan to stem the tide of growth on his beloved Island. It isn't long before the population is shocked and appalled to learn that a chainsaw-wielding maniac is wreaking ha
ASIN: 1450041078
VSKU: RDV.1450041078.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Friedman, Tony
Binding: Paperback
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