Cherry by Mary Karr

Cherry by Mary Karr

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MR. SUDGEBERY'S RECKLES HUMOR ETHOUGHT I was unable to stir from the point of contact between two great regiments of horse, charging down on each other, while they thundered this chorus: For her dear sake, The laws to break We'll sing to him, and yet we sayt Lord save the King and the King's highway but at the crucial moment I saved myself by waking with a jump so sudden that it seemed to stop my heart. Fear was still upon me; I found my back a-creep with cold and all my being alert to unknown horrors closing in on me through the darkness. Everything was silent?silent I sat up in bed and listened. Bold Boy he's out till the break o' day. There came faintly to my hearkening ear the murmur, like a failing echo, of that satanic chorus, as if it came from far down the road: Good-luck to him with the grand Hoorool The suspicions I had entertained of O'Don- nefl sprang up full-armed in my mind, bearing with them thoughts so wild that a fit of sinking, deep in my inwards, was their accompaniment. When I had mastered my emotions somewhat, I had a vivid, painful apprehension that there was a strange presence in the room, the which conception finally growing so intolerable that I crept out of the covers strategically, went to the door, and felt to see if it could be still bolted. All was secure. Returning cautiously toward the bed, I overturned a chair. It fell like a church. The noise of it in the hush ran through the house in a ghastly resonance, seeming to rattle the doors of a hundred empty rooms for admission. I stood stock-still, and the renewed silence was as startling as the noise had been. Then again, as I stood there, I heard the murmur of the highwayman's chorus, farther away, fainter: Me song celebrates him; The judge el.

Mary Karr kick-started a memoir revolution with The Liars' Club, which was a New York Times bestseller for over a year, a best book of the year for The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, People and Time, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the winner of prizes from PEN and the Texas Institute of Letters. Karr has won the Whiting Award, Radcliffe's Bunting Fellowship, and Pushcart Prizes for both verse and essays, and she has been a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. Her other bestselling books include The Art of Memoir, the memoirs Lit and Cherry, and the poetry collection Sinners Welcome, Viper Rum, The Devil's Tour, and Abacus. The Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University, Karr lives in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780141002071
ISBN 10	0141002077
Titel	Cherry
Autor	Mary Karr
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Penguin Putnam Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2001-09-01
Seitenanzahl	288
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