The Palace of the White Skunks"Story of Fortunato, a dreamy, sullen boy trapped in a house full of abandoned aunts in a decrepit backwater. Tormented by sexual desires for both men and women, he hears, in the pauses in his family's quarrels, the crackle of rebel gunfire a sound that will beckon him into a world as demented as the one he has sworn to escape."--Page 4 of cover |
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Page 245
... Celia's heels was heard on the roof . Celia was softly moaning . She cast into space strange , aristocratic gestures utterly unlike herself . And sometimes she seemed to be pushing someone away ( though not at all violently ) , someone ...
... Celia's heels was heard on the roof . Celia was softly moaning . She cast into space strange , aristocratic gestures utterly unlike herself . And sometimes she seemed to be pushing someone away ( though not at all violently ) , someone ...
Page 284
... Celia gets out of bed in the middle of the night and starts carrying on conversations with herself — and sometimes she sings too . Ay , but she does it with her mouth altogether too open . You'd think it was a frog with the cramps . Ay ...
... Celia gets out of bed in the middle of the night and starts carrying on conversations with herself — and sometimes she sings too . Ay , but she does it with her mouth altogether too open . You'd think it was a frog with the cramps . Ay ...
Page 314
... CELIA en- ters with her dead daughter sitting on her shoulders , giving the impression of one tall , unreal , deformed being . As CELIA speaks , ESTHER , furious and in silence , pulls out tufts of CELIA'S hair . ) CELIA : Haven't you ...
... CELIA en- ters with her dead daughter sitting on her shoulders , giving the impression of one tall , unreal , deformed being . As CELIA speaks , ESTHER , furious and in silence , pulls out tufts of CELIA'S hair . ) CELIA : Haven't you ...
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