Sweet Death: A NovelOverlook Press, 1987 - 130 pages Told with dazzling narrative brilliance and the haunting power of an impassioned soliloquy, an astonishing parable of a woman's obsession of sweets and delicacies is seen. A novel of heartstopping intensity, black humor and passion not easily forgotten. |
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Page 33
... smile ? Must I become that languid and cooing young woman leaning up against a man beneath my bedroom window , while Mama plays a waltz on the drawing - room piano as the guests , sleepy with heat and alcohol , hum along out of tempo ...
... smile ? Must I become that languid and cooing young woman leaning up against a man beneath my bedroom window , while Mama plays a waltz on the drawing - room piano as the guests , sleepy with heat and alcohol , hum along out of tempo ...
Page 86
... smile floated in state at a vertiginous height . Her eyes , outlined in black , shone like inaccessible stars fallen into the empty orbs of a statue on a pedestal . As for my father , that tall blond fellow of Viking reserve , I was ...
... smile floated in state at a vertiginous height . Her eyes , outlined in black , shone like inaccessible stars fallen into the empty orbs of a statue on a pedestal . As for my father , that tall blond fellow of Viking reserve , I was ...
Page 93
... smile . He stands there in a daze , halfway between rapture and fright , and stupidly begins to count the shovelfuls of earth beneath which my sugary laugh is dying away . But the alloted time was already up . My mother 93 SWEET DEATH.
... smile . He stands there in a daze , halfway between rapture and fright , and stupidly begins to count the shovelfuls of earth beneath which my sugary laugh is dying away . But the alloted time was already up . My mother 93 SWEET DEATH.
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