'Wuthering Heights' reimagined as a 1960s affair

Heathcliff Redux: A Novella and Stories is a haunting if slightly unbalanced collection

Of course I had read ‘Wuthering Heights’”, reads the opening line of Heathcliff Redux. “I read it years ago in high school, but, in my late 20s, I decided to read it again.” The unnamed narrator of Lily Tuck’s restrained but remarkably arresting novella is a well-to-do wife and mother in rural Virginia. Her husband, Charlie, breeds cattle on the 400-acre farm in Albemarle County where they live with their nine-year-old twin boys. It is 1963, “still a relatively innocent time — innocent, at least, for middle-class people like Charlie and me,” she reminisces. “We did not do drugs, we