Pushcart prize XXIX, 2005 : best of the small presses by Henderson Bill 1941-;Pushcart Press & Pushcart Press

Author:Henderson, Bill, 1941-;Pushcart Press & Pushcart Press
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: American literature, Small presses, American literature, Small presses
Publisher: Wainscott, N.Y. : Pushcart Press ; New York, N.Y. : Distributed by W.W. Norton
Published: 2005-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Mrs. Livingston sighed. She’d been born near an orphanage, and as a student nurse she’d worked in the New York Foundling Hospital. “Poor motherless boys! At least they’re young and healthy.

“Oh no,” Edna informed her. “Ringo had peritonitis as a child, and George had nephritis. They’re actually kind of sickly.” She knew her mother had sympathy for physical ills, though disturbances of the mind only made her irritable. Mrs. Livingston respected reality and those who kept in touch with its firm facts. Now she sat on the bed, watching TV, while Edna and Sunny took turns ironing. John Lennon came on the screen, apologizing for saying the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. The report that followed said the group had been nearly crushed to death in Cleveland, picketed by the Ku Klux Klan in Washington, D.C., and almost electrocuted in St. Louis. They’d received death threats in Memphis, where someone tossed a bomb on stage, and today two fans had promised to leap from the ledge of a New York hotel unless they met the Beatles.

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