Overview

EMINENT DOMAIN is about a worthy but eccentic professor and his wife, once a painter of great promise, now a reformed alcoholic who has retreated into a hermetic existance.  The story deals with their crisis as they appoach old age.  Further pressure is brough by the arrivial of a brilliant graduate student from Harvard who is writing a thesis on their son, an emerging poet who left home eight years ago and has not been heard from since.