Pearl by Mary Gordon

Author:Mary Gordon [Gordon, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Literary
ISBN: 9780786276448
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 2004-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

Breeda breaks into Finbar’s apartment, shouting, her face not a face but a mask, twisted, desperate. Her eyes don’t focus. She knocks over furniture, she who’d been afraid to knock too loudly on a door; she turns her uncomposed gaze on them, particularly on Pearl, as Pearl had turned her gaze particularly on Stevie, and says, “His blood is on your hands, the lot of yez, but especially”—she points to Pearl—“on yours!”

The world explodes; the cover is blown off. Pearl sees that all the time underneath this cover—a cover that is fragile, thinner than anyone would have imagined—there is another world, the real world. Exposed now like the rubble of the buildings and the roads of Omagh, the real world: a pit with shouting men, red eyes, open mouths, the twisting faces of the watchers in the paintings of Goya, of van der Goes. And she is one of them. She turned on Stevie. She didn’t turn on Mick or Finbar, who were in the room at the same time. She turned on the weakest, the one who would be most harmed. Automatically, as if she had been bred for it. The will to harm.

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