Bluebeard's Egg

By turns humorous and warm, stark and frightening, Bluebeard's Egg glows with childhood memories, the reality of parents growing old, and the casual cruelty men and women inflict on each other. Here is the familiar outer world of family summers at remote lakes, winters of political activism, and seasons of exotic friends, mundane lives, and unexpected loves. But here too is the inner world of hidden places and all that emerges from them-the intimately personal, the fantastic, the shockingly real...

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robot25 декабря 2013 г.
In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit’s cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me
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robot21 декабря 2013 г.
Theo amazes her, she loves him so much she can barely see him.
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robot16 декабря 2013 г.
Magicians, Christine knew from Lilian’s last birthday party, were a failure with small children, who didn’t see any reason why rabbits shouldn’t come out of hats.
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