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272 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 2012
Back in my own room a half an hour later, I lie awake staring at the ceiling. The bed is cool and empty. The bleaching sweep of car headlights generates sly angles across the wallsand:
I feel myself fall into a long nothingness. A steep sorrow. Sleep.Mr. Greenhalgh's visual metaphor and alliterative, perfectly metered sentences still make me wild with envy and satisfaction. (Though I find Capa--the main character--loathsome.)
Past and present dissolve until there's only the now.Here is what Mr. Greenhalgh does well: truth.