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Queenie Peavy was a puzzle to everyone but herself. She knew why she fired stones at anything and everything- wasn't she the best shot in Georgis? She knew why she was defiant with her teachers and deliberately mean to her schoolmates-weren't they all agaonst her? And Queenie didn't care--not Queenie Peavy!! The fact was that Queenie had a chip on her shoulder too big for a lonely 13 year old to carry growing up in the depression years in Georgia.

Sons and Lovers is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence, and the price of family bonds. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude Morel devotes her life to her sons. But conflict is inevitable when Paul seeks relationships with women to escape the suffocating grasp of his mother. As profoundly affecting today as it was nearly a century ago, this is the peerless Lawrence at his most personal. Drawing on both the physical setting and emotional atmosphere of his own childhood, Lawrence's evocation of a working-class life and of family conflicts is a literary masterpiece rich in insights into its author.