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"...all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved."
"...so few of us learn that love is tenderness, and tenderness is not, as a fair proportion suspect, pity; and still fewer know that happiness in love is not the absolute focusing of all emotion in another: one has always to love a good many ...more
"...all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved."
"...so few of us learn that love is tenderness, and tenderness is not, as a fair proportion suspect, pity; and still fewer know that happiness in love is not the absolute focusing of all emotion in another: one has always to love a good many ...more
Truman Capote has a way of writing NYC and the American South with equal romance (this book is set in the latter). I’d never want to live there, but reading about Joel’s experience sure do make me want to visit for a few weeks.
Fabulously haunting Southern gothic literature. Descriptions so vivid you can sense the heat, taste the dust, and feel the desperate isolation. Sometimes with Southern gothic novels, the weirdness and magic realism get a little bit in the way of the narrative for me, and that happens here, too, but I think that's more a convention of the style than anything else. One other thing I absolutely adored about this novel was the fact that it's semi-autobiographical, with Idabel standing in for Harper
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