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Only with Africanist characters is such a project thinkable: delayed gratification for the pleasure of a (white) child.
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
Julia Kristeva, Ishiguro, Moacyr Scliar, Magris, Semprun, Baricco, Updike
Maria Valéria Rezende • Quarenta Dias
It was a habit of his, letting the ash dangle. Babette thought he did it to induce feelings of suspense and anxiety in others. It was part of the reckless weather in which he moved.
Don DeLillo • White Noise
she believed that she had to touch every separate slat in every separate bench beside the pond.
Philip Pullman • His Dark Materials: The Complete Collection: now a major BBC TV series
It was thrown in as well, from the first moment, that I should get on with Mrs Grose in a relation over which, on my way, in the coach, I fear I had rather brooded. The one appearance indeed that in this early outlook might have made me shrink again was that of her being so inordinately glad to see me. I felt within half an hour that she was so gla
... See moreSusie Boyt • The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
A sensitive woman, disappointed in marriage, exhausts her own ingenuity before she takes counsel.
Susie Boyt • The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
Still, I wanted to believe; indeed I longed to; and, in the end, how much of belief comes from longing?