The Paperboy by Pete Dexter

Author:Pete Dexter
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Investigative Reporting, Family, Florida, Family Life, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780385315722
Publisher: Delta
Published: 1995-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

WE PUT YARDLEY ACHEMAN back in the boat—he sat down facing the motor—and then pushed it into the water and got in ourselves. The woman came into my line of sight then, standing at the edge of the house for a second or two, the tip of her finger in her mouth, as if she did not want to let go of the taste of ice cream, and then there was a sound in the house, a squalling, and she looked that way and was gone. She had round shoulders and clear skin, and I wondered what she would have looked like in another place. I pulled the starter cord and the engine caught, sputtered, and then smoothed as I corrected the choke.

“Thank you,” my brother said again.

The old man nodded and his son came to the edge of the water and stood next to him. Yardley sat backwards in the boat, clutching the sides, nervous even before we pushed it off into the water.

The old man smiled at him and said, “Hold on to that boat now.”

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