Burden: A NovelSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 2003. 4. 7. - 320페이지 Burden, a twenty-one-year-old grocery store clerk in Walterboro, South Carolina, has two things on his mind: suicide and sex. Suicide because of overwhelming guilt for his role in the death of a beloved cousin. Sex because if you live in a small Southern town stuffed with unfulfilled wives and their vengeful men, it's got to be a great way to go. |
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... heard him, right? Twenty dollars. Clemson is going to whoop the ever-living shit out of your Cocks." “Your wife couldn't do it, what makes you think Clemson can?” “Would you lay off my goddamn wife?" Eugene carried his mass to the bar ...
... heard the doubt, subtle but present, in histone. It was this doubt, a presence he felt with increasing insistence each day, that kept him from coming to the cemetery as often as he used to. It was this same doubt that stole the peace he ...
... heard The Calling, taking the Hippocratic oath to heart to the point of neglecting his beautiful wife. In the years since their marriage began she had become a lovely work of art shut away, as far as Hubert's affections or libido were ...
... heard her say, “Burden . . . Burden, dear, can you come here? I need your help. I'm upstairs. . . in the bedroom.” Suspecting nothing, he had crossed through the foyer, mounted the staircase, and strolled down a hallway that was lined ...
... heard the squeak of a rat—a rat—come from them. I swear to God in heaven that I saw two beady yellow eyes staring back at me from inside a leg, its filthy rat snout twitching at me in my own home—my own home. Can you imagine that ...