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Town and Country Lovers Summary & Study Guide Description
Town and Country Lovers Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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Town and Country Lovers Plot Summary
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Part I
"Town and Country Lovers" is a two-part story about interracial lovers who suffer the consequences of breaking the rules forbidding such relationships. In the first story, solitary geologist Dr. von Leinsdorf meets a young, colored (mixed-race) African girl who is a cashier at the grocery store across the street from his apartment. When the store is out of the razors he likes, she makes an effort to get some for him. He asks her to bring them to his apartment, and she soon begins to deliver his groceries for him a few times a week. Before long, the two become sexually involved. He enjoys her company and her sexual availability to him, and he tries to help her by teaching her to swim, type, and improve her grammar.
The cashier tells the other people in the building and her mother that she works for Dr. von Leinsdorf. Still, the...
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