A Previous Life by Edmund White

Author:Edmund White [White, Edmund]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc

Ruggero read: On the train back to Rome we sat side by side, kept pretending to be interested in the passing landscape of tiled ocher houses and scorched fields but periodically looked at each other, smiling simultaneously, as if the sweep of the lighthouse were timed. I was worried it was all too mièvre—“soppy,” do you say?—especially after we started holding hands. Her hand was warm and dry. To look at us you’d think we’d had a roaring night of anal and vaginal intercourse instead of just a bit of innocent oral sex.

I realized I liked her. Very much. I’d overcome my provincial distaste for her Germanness (just as I was used to northern Italians disdaining me when they found out I was Sicilian). Her “beauty,” which had at first struck me as melodramatic, had now softened into something familiar and on its way to being dear. Her pianistic prowess, which I’d dismissed as showmanship, now seemed genuine, thoughtful.

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