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A principios de los años cincuenta, Matthew Soames, maestro en un colegio rural, y su mujer, Callie, disfrutan del final del verano en su granja de las afueras de Renfro, Misuri, en la que criaron a sus cuatro enérgicas hijas: la mayor, Jessica; Leonie, la más responsable; la indómita Mathy, que dejó sus estudios para casarse con un piloto acrobático, y la pequeña Mary Jo, que abandonó la granja muy joven para trabajar en la televisión en Nueva York. Como cada año, tres de sus hijas acuden a visitarles durante unas semanas. El final de su estancia hace aflorar los recuerdos: las alegrías, decepciones, amores y desengaños que marcaron el paso del tiempo y que parecen haber dominado la vida de las cuatro hermanas. Sin embargo, más allá de lo ocurrido late el profundo amor que los ha mantenido unidos durante todos esos años. Cuatro hermanas, la primera y única novela de Jetta Carleton, fue publicada por primera vez en 1962. Su editor, el mítico director literario de Knopf, Robert Gottlieb, decía de ella: «De los cientos de novelas que he editado, Cuatro hermanas es realmente la única que he releído en varias ocasiones desde su publicación y, cada vez que la leo, me emociona tanto como la primera vez.
In the early 1950s, Matthew Soames, a rural high school teacher, and his wife, Callie, enjoy the end of the summer on their farm outside Renfro, Missouri, where they raised their four energetic daughters: the oldest , Jessica; Leonie, the most responsible; wild Mathy, who dropped out of school to marry a stunt pilot, and little Mary Jo, who left the farm at a young age to work on television in New York. Like every year, three of their daughters come to visit them for a few weeks. The end of their stay brings out memories: the joys, disappointments, loves, and disillusionments that marked the passage of time and that seem to have dominated the lives of the four sisters. However, beyond what happened beats the deep love that has kept them together during all those years.
In the early 1950s, Matthew Soames, a rural high school teacher, and his wife, Callie, enjoy the end of the summer on their farm outside Renfro, Missouri, where they raised their four energetic daughters: the oldest , Jessica; Leonie, the most responsible; wild Mathy, who dropped out of school to marry a stunt pilot, and little Mary Jo, who left the farm at a young age to work on television in New York. Like every year, three of their daughters come to visit them for a few weeks. The end of their stay brings out memories: the joys, disappointments, loves, and disillusionments that marked the passage of time and that seem to have dominated the lives of the four sisters. However, beyond what happened beats the deep love that has kept them together during all those years.
