Escapade

by Evelyn Scott

Book Overview

In 1913, at the age of nineteen, Elsie Dunn--later to be known as Evelyn Scott--turned her back on the genteel Southern world she was born into and ran off to Brazil with a married Tulane University... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088184294X
• ISBN13: 9780881842944
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A writer worthy of rediscovery

Scott's fictional account of her time is Brazil is a fascinating precursor to the Existentialist fiction of Sartre, Camus, and Walker Percy. A brutally Freudian portrayl, 'Escapade' is not the fun-filled read the title may lead many readers to believe it to be, but it is an honest and compelling account of a rough period in the life of a courageous and daring woman.

Very descriptive stream of conciousness book.

I very much liked the book Escapade by Evelyn Scott. Although it does get rather dull at some points because it has no plot line, I was very enthrawled with the way the main character thinks. Evelyn Scott gives an accurate description of how the mind functions in a stream of conciousness.