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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... moment, Burden didn't have the courage to provoke him. Eugene downed the shot and took a quarter of the beer into ... moments' hesitation he settled back on his bar stool. Cat leaned forward and said to Eugene, “You want to go up to ...
... moment more. “Look, Peedie,” he said at length, “I should be getting home. I'll come round to see you sometime soon, in a couple of days, maybe. Sure I will. We can talk then if you want." He turned his back to the grave and started to ...
... moment before secreting her list in his pocket. It was unfair for Burden to feel bored with Maude, for it had been she who had devised the solution of how he should effect his final exit. His continued liaisons with her over the last ...
... moment in her life, Irony had delivered this miracle of fleshly metamorphosis on its own demonic timetable, for by the time her late debut had been announced, the pillage of her psyche was complete. Countless hours spent gazing into ...
... moment he realized he'd lived more than half his life without having yet enjoyed a woman's tender touch that roused his mind to sudden panic; whatever his motive, at first sight of her, Hubert strode to her with all the confidence a ...