Abstract

What Maisie Knew is concerned with the process, the shape, and the value of renunciation. Sufficiently before us as we read is the awareness that events, impressions, insights are accumulating and interacting in ways that contribute to establishing the moral weight of someone's giving up someone and something. Ultimately, as well as progressively, we discover with Maisie; but what distinguishes the book is the value of her knowledge as it is brought to bear upon the climactic facts of her case: inescapable confrontation and the pressure to choose.1

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