“And that's what I wanted: obliteration. Decimation. Just an instant smear of me right out of all this rising and falling and nothing changing that feels like living.” In the beginning there was Kathy Nicolo. She is an addict who has been through a drug rehabilitation program. She has been flyin...
The Cage Keeper and other Stories by Andre Dubus is a colllective reading of lives that fall between the cracks. A beautiful arrangement of strange, tragic, and liberating things, Andre Dubus uses his direct, and sometimes humorous language, to tell stories no one thinks to tell. Starting with Th...
Nel 1975 Robert Stone con Dog Soldiers e Thomas Williams con The Hair of Harold Roux si divisero il National Book Award. Ma, mentre il romanzo di Stone è entrato nel canone degli accademici statunitensi e nella lista stilata dal Times dei migliori cento romanzi pubblicati dal 1923, il romanzo di ...
She was from Maine and had brown hair and bright hazel eyes and whenever she blinked a tiny indentation appeared above her nostrils. Pop told me she was a good writer, one of his most talented, and one night at Ronnie D’s I sat across from her in one of the booths. Under the bar noise we ta...
Last night he woke me up. He had his hand on my shoulder, squeezing real hard, and he said, “Charlie’s out there. This place is fuckin’ crawling with Charlie.” I touched his hand and he let go. Then I turned towards him and smelled his sweat.“Everything’s fine, babe. I’m here. Everything’s fine,”...