Book is missing dustcover. Vintage 1960 edition. Family! Uncompromisingly tells the sometimes torn and tattered, the sometimes uplifting story of the marriages – licit and illicit – of the three Sprague brothers, their children, their separate dramas and comedies. Drink, lust, nobility and degradation move across the tapestry of this narrative. But shining through always is the painted, middle-aged face of Virgie, who would not tarnish. Vulgar, raffish, she walked in a kind of beauty – a woman who did not belong, yet belonged everywhere!