When I went to purchase Godwin's latest book, "Flora: A Novel," one reviewer noted that the latest novel built on the treatment Godwin had given the girl/woman friendship in "The Finishing School." I hadn't even known about "The Finishing School" even though I've read many of Godwin's books. I fe...
A writer, Christina, who relies on her visual capacities, finds that she can hear her composer husband's voice after he dies. He had consistently accused her of not listening to him during their private cocktail hour every evening at five o'clock; she was still living consciously in the world of ...
Gabriel’sFATHER LOHAN, HIS back to the people, knelt at the altar for the noon Requiem Mass of All Souls’ Day. “Munda cor meum ac labia mea, omnipotens Deus, qui labia Isaiae Prophetae calculo mundasti ignito …”Maud, the non-Catholic, also on her knees, read the English translation on the right s...
My heart goes out to you. It is a terrible thing to lose a parent and all the more devastating when you only have the one to lose. In the short time we were with your father, it was clear how much he loved you and looked out for you.Of course I don’t mind your writing to me. The truth is we have ...
She trailed her fingers along his closed Yamaha grand (he had bought it the day after he watched Laurence Olivier’s deathbed scene in Brideshead Revisited: “What am I waiting for? If not now, when?”). She sat down at his desk and stroked the cool flanks of the brass elephant, perusing the day’s j...
Sunday morning, June 21: Room 510 new words: cartel bagman gonif STERN I have been in Miami exactly one week today. I feel a thousand years older and a million times more ignorant. I closed my “Go, Tar Heels!” notebook and dropped it into the bedside drawer, on top of the Gideons Bible. Then, pri...