LifelinesA beautifully wrought and sharply detailed story of the intertwining lives of two women: Duse, a strong-willed psychic and Isadora, her daughter, who struggles to find her own identity. A masterful evocation of the complex network of expectation, love, rebellion and need that is at the core of every mother-daughter relationship. |
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... dinner , he hushed her prattle ; after dinner , he wanted peace to listen to the radio , to read his paper . It wasn't until Duse was five that he suddenly noticed the way she sometimes looked at him , the way she would twist away from ...
... dinner , he hushed her prattle ; after dinner , he wanted peace to listen to the radio , to read his paper . It wasn't until Duse was five that he suddenly noticed the way she sometimes looked at him , the way she would twist away from ...
Page 78
... dinner he might eat - but every once in a while she would see him with his face somehow paler , and she would drop the garment , she would stand , shaky . She bought vitamin pills and pulverized some of them into the dinner hamburger ...
... dinner he might eat - but every once in a while she would see him with his face somehow paler , and she would drop the garment , she would stand , shaky . She bought vitamin pills and pulverized some of them into the dinner hamburger ...
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... dinner invitation , putting her beside astrologists and herbalists and a few times beside doctors and lawyers . They were always nice enough , but she never let them take her home , she never went to dinner with them , and she LIFELINES ...
... dinner invitation , putting her beside astrologists and herbalists and a few times beside doctors and lawyers . They were always nice enough , but she never let them take her home , she never went to dinner with them , and she LIFELINES ...
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Allison Amelia animals Ann Arbor Anna Anna's anymore arms asked baby believe breath called clean clients clothing crazy Daniel dinner doctor door dream Duse didn't Duse never Duse told Duse wouldn't Duse's Ellen everything eyes face feel felt fingers floor funny gift girl grocer's wife hair hands hear heard hurt hypnosis hypnotize inside Isadora Duncan Isadora looked Isadora saw Isadora thought kids kind kitchen knew leotards lifted lines listen Madison marriage line Martin mother mouth moved night Olya palm palm read paper parrot pick picture pills pulled pushed remember seemed sheets shirt shut silent skin sleep smile someone sometimes star started stood stop strange paradise suddenly talk tell things told Duse told Isadora took touch tried trying voice waited walked wanted to know watched woman worried writing