The opening chapters describe several matters in innocent detail, including the past marital difficulties of Ned and Beth, now apparently long-resolved the moody Kate's serious, life-threatening asthma, in part a psychosomatic reaction to those marital troubles and, most importantly, the eccentricities of life in Cornwall Coombe. The Constantines buy and renovate the house and move to Cornwall Coombe, breaking completely with their old life in the city. They express interest in an abandoned three hundred year old house, and they are contacted some weeks later by the Dodds, who live next door to the house and who tell them that it is for sale. The village seems an idyllic farming community that offers all that Ned and Beth have been seeking. After months of half-hearted looking, and while driving back to New York from the funeral of Beth's father, the family chances across a geographically and culturally isolated village, named Cornwall Coombe, in Connecticut. Fed up with life in New York City, the family decides to relocate to the country, where Ned, a former advertising agency executive, can pursue his artistic career. Told in first person, "Harvest Home" is the story of artist Ned Constantine (the narrator), his wife Beth, and their young teenaged daughter Kate.
The following entry summarizes the plot of the book, although the mini-series adaptation was generally faithful.
The book became an NBC mini-series starring Bette Davis in 1978. Set in 1935, the novel focuses on the sadistic relationship between two 13-year-old and identical twin boys: one of whom is well behaved while the other is a sociopath who wreaks havoc on his family's rural New England farm property."Harvest Home" is the name of a 1973 novel by Thomas Tryon, which he wrote in the wake of his 1971 critically-acclaimed " The Other". The novel was reprinted in a commemorative edition in 2012 by New York Review Books with an afterword by Dan Chaon. The Other was adapted into a 1972 film of the same name directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Uta Hagen. Upon its release, the novel received wide critical acclaim and became a surprise bestseller. Tryon, who had been a working actor, retired from his Hollywood career to become a novelist.
The Other is a psychological horror novel by American writer Thomas Tryon, published in 1971.
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