Cynosura

<p>Arrogance and romance <strong> </strong></p><p><em>Cynosura</em> is a feverish love story between a non-ordinary Tennessee farm girl of supernal physical beauty and an estranged youth possessed of exceptional intellectual ambition.</p><p>The girl a gifted and hard-working cellist is a natural-born elitist contemptuous or anyway indifferent to ordinary people. Her self-selected life's mission is to identify the man to whom she will want to consecrate her life. She is sexual intelligent melancholy efficient and intuits that her life will be short.</p><p>The boy preternaturally brilliant is not in love with life. He chooses solitude so as not to have to compromise with friends (he hasn't any) or colleagues. Value he believes derives solely from the mind and imagination though he is too young of course to have developed a full philosophy. He abhors capitalist practice and strives for self-sufficiency at the price of poverty.</p><p>Their brief and explosive affair approaches transcendence.</p>