Summary
A salt-stung Maine fisherman, Judd Minot, chisels driftwood between tides, his rough thumbs shaping faces only Mary Garland can decipher; she, moon-bright and fierce, ships him southward with the silk-gloved patron Henry Bliss, promising marble halls where granite dreams might crystallize. Manhattan swallows the boy whole: neon, jazz, champagne avalanches, Myrna Bliss’s lacquered smile. Under skylight orgies he forgets the Atlantic’s pulse; bronzes cool, clay cracks, critics sniff. Word of his unraveling races back to spruce-shrouded Penobscot; Mary boards the night train, coat thin as conscience. Their reunion in a cavernous studio—dust on abandoned armatures, Myrna’s laughter still echoing—ignites a silent confession: every torso, every hollowed flank, bore her silhouette all along. He smashes the decadent commissions, flees the limelight, returns north with her, pockets empty, heart re-calibrated to the metronome of gulls.
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Wanting her sweetheart, Judd Minot, a Maine fisherman, to develop his sculpting talents, Mary Garland encourages him to accompany art connoisseur Henry Bliss to New York City. Once there, Judd forgets Mary and becomes smitten with Bliss's attractive daughter Myrna. Although he wins fame as an artist, the party society life he leads with Myrna causes his work to suffer. When Mary learns of Judd's stagnation and fast style of living, she rushes to New York to rescue him. When he sees her, Judd realizes that Mary is the prime inspiration for all his statues and renews his love for her.
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