This is superb writing.No, it's not an easy read, mentally or emotionally--who wants to think of being trapped in your own mindn unable to speak? I think maybe this book will never speak to younger readers.)I have, over the past year, come to look back on my win life and ask, "how?" "why?" :when....
Huge widebody, full. I was in the middle of coach in a row of five, in the middle seat. All right, I’ll make the best of it. I have my little Sony, I’ll turn it on when they say we can and talk to two people, and that will be the program: me, the dressed-up old fellow on my left, and the woman on...
The man desperately wanted to take the place of her husband. He made scenes: he pled, commanded, threatened suicide. The trouble was that although she had fallen in love so suddenly, she also loved the man she had married, who was in the dark about what was happening and didn’t even know the time...
Off the clothesline and down into the flowerpots, weighing down orchids with its thumb-size abdomen. It made Amy think of fat women she had washed in nursing school. A panniculus might hang to the thighs; you lifted it on the back of your hand and wrist, swabbed carefully because of yeasts. In th...