Goosefoot by Patrick McGinley

Author:Patrick McGinley
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781448209590
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-11-27T00:00:00+00:00

She wrote to her mother, reminding her that Uncle Lar was well able to look after himself. Then she washed the smoke out of her hair, remembering Uncle Lar in the lane, a spare, craggy man with one bowleg and a stick, realizing that wherever she went, the short white hair, the bony skull, and the high cheekbones with deep hollows beneath would represent for her goodness, simplicity, but above all the mystery of a life at once lucid and dark.

He had about him the quality of silence. He never interrupted another man in conversation, but when he suddenly looked up at the ceiling or the sky everyone knew he was going to speak and waited for words that seemed too slow to come. He was a man above the ordinary run of men, a man of moral and physical strength who never willingly gave pain to anyone. She reread her mother’s letter, tore it into little pieces, and put it in the dustbin.

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