By David Bergen
"The Case of Lena S." follows the lifestyles, loves, and coming-of-age of sixteen-year-old Mason Crowe in the course of a yr within which he'll research what it actually ability to be on this planet. on the centre of the unconventional is Lena, a lady who has " chosen" Mason and should train him anything of hope and depression. Impulsive, provocative, weak, and unhappy, Lena turns into haunting for Mason in methods he doesn't regularly comprehend. We meet Mason's first " love, " an older lady destined for an prepared marriage; his mom, who takes a lover; and a sensible and erudite blind guy with a voyeuristic streak, to whom Mason reads. Playful, and with deadpan humour, the radical brilliantly captures the yearnings of teenybopper, in addition to the tantalizing probabilities and the confounding absurdities that usually lie on the middle of our such a lot intimate relationships.
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If so, Radclif gave no sign. “Well, it’s . . ” “Course I don’t see any difference. ” The truck hit suddenly a stretch of wide, hard road, un-bordered by tree-shade, though a black skirt of distant pines darkened the rim of a great field that lay to the left. A far-off figure, whether man or woman you could not tell, rested from hoeing to wave, and Joel waved back. Farther on, two little white-haired boys astride a scrawny mule shouted their delight when the truck passed, burying them in a screen of dust.
Radclif fingered the letter a moment before opening it; but presently, with clumsy care, he extracted a green sheet of tissue-like paper and, moving his lips, read: EDW. R. SANSOM, ESQ. SKULLY’S LANDING MAY 18, 19— MY DEAR ELLEN KENDALL, I am in your debt for answering my letter so quickly; indeed, by return post. Yes, hearing from me after twelve years must have seemed strange, but I can assure you sufficient reason prompted this long silence. However, reading in the Times-Picayune, to the Sunday issue of which we subscribe, of my late wife’s passing, may God the Almighty rest her gentle soul, I at once reasoned the honorable thing could only be to again assume my paternal duties, forsaken, lo, these many years.
Here it is,” he said, selecting one in a watergreen envelope. Radclif fingered the letter a moment before opening it; but presently, with clumsy care, he extracted a green sheet of tissue-like paper and, moving his lips, read: EDW. R. SANSOM, ESQ. SKULLY’S LANDING MAY 18, 19— MY DEAR ELLEN KENDALL, I am in your debt for answering my letter so quickly; indeed, by return post. Yes, hearing from me after twelve years must have seemed strange, but I can assure you sufficient reason prompted this long silence.
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