The PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson

Author:Jeanette Winterson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780307763617
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2013-04-16T21:00:00+00:00

She was out of the place, taking the steep steps two at a time and disappearing up the vertical alleys before I could fumble with the Calor gas of the stove, grab the keys and go after her.

‘You should let her go,’ I’m saying to myself, my legs taking no notice. ‘For God’s sake, let her go,’ and my heart was pounding and I was angry, so angry, with myself or her, I don’t know. Just blood pushing against thought. Angry at me or her, and my fist clenched round the keys as I bounded up the track, hearing the church bell like a pulse.

When I got to the Piazza Monumentale, I saw her disappearing in one of the white taxis with the roof down. I ran over to the rank. Stopped. I had come out without any money. Ripping through my pockets all I could produce was a five thousand lire note.

OK. The bus.

I stood in the queue, the sun too hot, no sunscreen, sweating like a horse, my mouth dry, my face like a gargoyle (no sunglasses), my blood pressure at hospital level and my heart melting like a tourist’s ice cream.

For half an hour, bus after bus came in the opposite direction, and I kept saying to myself, ‘Get on, go down to the Faro, swim as you are, wash her off you.’ But it was too late for that, so I stood there like an idiot, waiting.

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