Dolce Agonia: A NovelA group of cosmopolitan friends in midlife gather in New England for a Thanksgiving dinner. When it begins to snow they become trapped. With the exception of an enigmatic outsider, a young trophy wife, they all know too much about each other, their weak points and failures. |
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... talk much , don't need to , friends all these years , this half - life of Sean's in the course of which Leonid has gradually eased his way out of middle age - but still he's strong and muscular , never would it occur to Sean to put up ...
... talk much , don't need to , friends all these years , this half - life of Sean's in the course of which Leonid has gradually eased his way out of middle age - but still he's strong and muscular , never would it occur to Sean to put up ...
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... talk about the weather , it's hot and sunny every day of the year . " " What do you use for small talk , then ? " he'd asked . “ Political murders . You hear they just lynched So - and - So in Cité Soleil ? ” He's forgotten the name of ...
... talk about the weather , it's hot and sunny every day of the year . " " What do you use for small talk , then ? " he'd asked . “ Political murders . You hear they just lynched So - and - So in Cité Soleil ? ” He's forgotten the name of ...
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... talk in Madison , at a colloquium on “ The Epicurean Ideal in the Postmodern World . " This would have been fine except that his father Sidney was in the hospital just then , about to undergo a triple bypass operation . “ It should go ...
... talk in Madison , at a colloquium on “ The Epicurean Ideal in the Postmodern World . " This would have been fine except that his father Sidney was in the hospital just then , about to undergo a triple bypass operation . “ It should go ...
Contents
Prologue in Heaven | 1 |
Dinner Preparations | 5 |
Patrizia | 28 |
Copyright | |
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