The Last Time They Met: A Novel by Anita Shreve

Author:Anita Shreve
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Psychological, Poets, FIC000000, Psychological fiction, Women poets, Married people, General, Romance, Adultery, American fiction, Fiction, Forgiveness
ISBN: 9780316781145
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2001-04-15T03:41:48.541422+00:00

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He tried to take in the room and make it his, even as she lay upon the coverlet. The kanga unknotted now, the halter top untied, her breasts a white shock against the color of her skin. He could not then remember anything of how they had been before, and yet they moved together as if they hadn’t ever been apart. He had never felt himself so thoroughly at home in time. It was a revelation that this could be his, that she might give him this again and again and again, that discontent might ease. She rose above him and said his name, her hair a damp curtain at the sides of her face. She lowered her shoulders and offered her breasts, which he took into his hands and mouth, wanting all of her.

Sweet recompense for all the days and nights unlived.

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