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More Afraid of You
Joshua Ferris
‘On Bainbridge Island, across the Puget Sound from Seattle, there are two modes of living: downtown and inland.’
L,U,C,I,E
Nadine Gordimer
‘I correct the spelling because I’m a lawyer and I’m accustomed to precision in language; in legal documents the displacement of a comma can change the intention expressed in a sentence and lead to new litigation.’
The Dead Girls
Jorge Ibargüengoitia
'For years it seemed like God was with them. While my husband and Iost everything three times through honest work, my sisters were getting rich off immorality.'
Bye-Bye Natalia
Michel Faber
‘Natalia picks at the frayed black lace of her dress while the photograph of her American penpal loads into the computer.’
Hippocrates
V. V. Ganeshananthan
‘Pain informs. Pain draws a map. Doctors resolve to relieve pain, but pain is information, and to lose it is to lose something valuable.’
Every Person’s Little Treasure
Liliana Heker
‘It occurred to Ana that this was a woman who often left things hanging.’
The Shore
Richard Ford
'Our relationship, in fact, hasn't seemed to need more attention to theme or direction but has proceeded or at least persisted on autopilot, like a small plane flying out over a peaceful ocean with no one exactly in command.'
A Conversation with the Head of Orpheus
Russell Hoban
‘Far, far away in the night are live human beings whose breathing can be heard as they speak, and they're looking at their illuminated dials as I look at mine at this end of the darkness that curves with the night miles to the heave and swell of the ocean dawn.’
The New Customers
Julian Jackson
‘All the time I could sense the watchful eyes and listening ears at the end of the bar.’
