Forlag Viking
Utgivelsesår 2016
Format Hardcover
ISBN13 9780525426608
Språk Engelsk
Sider 432
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Start en diskusjon om verket Se alle diskusjoner om verketIllness cared nothing about money or fairness or the things you planned to do later.
But after all this time he didn't know what he wanted to do. Let her go? Keep her close? Somehow do both things at once. Be free, and haunted, forever. If only he could keep her inside a box, safely stashed away in a closet drawer, to be taken out only when he wanted.
If he could just have one more day when nothing was wrong, when time could be wasted, because there had still been so, so much of it out there.
We came to the city because we wished to live haphazardly, to reach only for the least realistic of our desires, and to see if we could not learn what our failures had to teach, and not, when we came to live, discover that we had never died. We wanted to dig deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to be overworked and reduced to our last wit.
We hated them; we wanted them to love us. We wanted to be them; we wanted to never, ever become them.