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 dean more than twice her age. Living in tropical exile under assumed names, the couple produced a son and endured a grueling series of hardships and failures that would provide Scott with the raw material for Escapade, first published in 1923 amid expressions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813916410
• ISBN13: 9780813916415
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 321 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

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.