Illumination night alice hoffman
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABALICEHOFFMANIllumination NightA NovelAlice HoffmanOPENROADINTEGRATED MEDIANEW YORXTo Sara Hoffman 1900-1985To Lillie Lulkin 1903 Illumination night alice hoffman 3-1987Chapter OneILLUMINATION NIGHTSimon looks out his window and sees something white moving in the window of the house next door. It is the first Saturday in July and so hot that dragonflies light on his window ledge, too weak to fly. Simon lifts himself up by leaning his arms on the ledge; his to Illumination night alice hoffman es are pressed against the baseboard molding. He can hear the ocean, which lies beyond a tangled field of beach plums and scrub pines. He can hear theIllumination night alice hoffman
white material in the window next door flapping against the bright blue sky, and his dog, an old German shepherd named Nelson, digging himself a holeA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABALICEHOFFMANIllumination NightA NovelAlice HoffmanOPENROADINTEGRATED MEDIANEW YORXTo Sara Hoffman 1900-1985To Lillie Lulkin 1903 Illumination night alice hoffman on his motorcycle out in the shed. The radio is turned on in the shed, and music spirals upward. Downstairs, in the kitchen, Simon’s mother, Vonny, lights the right rear burner of the stove. It’s an old black stove, and beneath the heavy metal the floorboards sway. The stove was installed in the tw Illumination night alice hoffman enties, as were the plumbing and the electricity (hat flickers whenever there’s a thunderstorm. The house itself—two small bedrooms upstairs, a kitcheIllumination night alice hoffman
n, parlor, living room, bath, and sun porch downstairs—is a brown shingled cottage that sags in odd places. The ceilings are too low and (he pipes moaA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABALICEHOFFMANIllumination NightA NovelAlice HoffmanOPENROADINTEGRATED MEDIANEW YORXTo Sara Hoffman 1900-1985To Lillie Lulkin 1903 Illumination night alice hoffman eve Andre was actually considering it. There were bats in the upstairs bedrooms then, and a family of skunks lived under the porch. Andre had just sold his company —he designed and manufactured three-wheeled motorcycles—and they bought the house the way they got married, suddenly, startling themselv Illumination night alice hoffman es with their own recklessness. The weekend they bought the property was the first time either of them had been (0 Martha’s Vineyard. After the realtoIllumination night alice hoffman
r showed them the house, they went out to lunch, then came back to explore on their own. Andre went immediately to thecellar, to inspect the foundatioA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABALICEHOFFMANIllumination NightA NovelAlice HoffmanOPENROADINTEGRATED MEDIANEW YORXTo Sara Hoffman 1900-1985To Lillie Lulkin 1903 Illumination night alice hoffman the wood had released her, regained her balance. She sat down on the second step and began to cry. The flashlight Andre held made circles of light as he knelt to examine the rotten stair. He wore a white shirt and blue jeans and an old black jacket. He swung one leg over the splintered wood and wat Illumination night alice hoffman ched her cry. Two hours later (hey bought the house.It has been five years and Andre has never regretted it. On the other hand, in (he dead of winterIllumination night alice hoffman
Vonny thinks a lot about Beacon Street. She hates the stove here; a draft always blows out the pilot light as she cooks, even on hot, still days. TodaA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABALICEHOFFMANIllumination NightA NovelAlice HoffmanOPENROADINTEGRATED MEDIANEW YORXTo Sara Hoffman 1900-1985To Lillie Lulkin 1903 Illumination night alice hoffman s off his pajama pants and gets shorts and a T-shirt out of his dresser. He pulls his p.j. top up and gets stuck inside. When he opens his eyes everything looks blue. He finally gets his p.j.s over his head, then sits down to dress himself. He is extremely proud of some of the things he is able to d Illumination night alice hoffman o. He loves the way his mother’s eyes widen when he manages something that was impossible even a week earlier. If the world ended at (he front door, SIllumination night alice hoffman
imon would not care, although he might like to extend it a bit to include the shed and the stony path where he rides his bike—his father has bolted twA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABALICEHOFFMANIllumination NightA NovelAlice HoffmanOPENROADINTEGRATED MEDIANEW YORXTo Sara Hoffman 1900-1985To Lillie Lulkin 1903 Illumination night alice hoffman there is so murky it is impossible to swim, but the beach is littered with false angel wings and bone-white crab claws and, in the height of summer, pink marsh mallows grow wild in the thickets.Next door, Elizabeth Renny, who will be seventy-four this winter, holds up a white scarf. Through it, the Illumination night alice hoffman wide expanse of lawn looks gauzy and far away. Beside her there are thin curtains that cling to her skin. This cottage is newer than the one next dooIllumination night alice hoffman
r, built at the turn of the century. She has lived here, in Chilmark, for more (han fifty years. Last night, two starlings got caught in her chimney aA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABALICEHOFFMANIllumination NightA NovelAlice HoffmanOPENROADINTEGRATED MEDIANEW YORXTo Sara Hoffman 1900-1985To Lillie Lulkin 1903 Illumination night alice hoffman abeth suddenly felt light-headed and she has felt more and more giddy as (he morning wears on. She wonders if the starlings managed to rise up in the chimney without moving their wings. When she looks outside, thesleeplessness and heat have a strange effect on her. She has been worried about the com Illumination night alice hoffman ing winter since May. She is all alone; her daughter lives in a suburb of Hartford, Connecticut. For the past year, there has been a film over her rigIllumination night alice hoffman
ht eye. Lately a black spot has formed in the center of her vision. At night, she is frightened by silly things: the sound of crickets, branches brushA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABALICEHOFFMANIllumination NightA NovelAlice HoffmanOPENROADINTEGRATED MEDIANEW YORXTo Sara Hoffman 1900-1985To Lillie Lulkin 1903 Illumination night alice hoffman he can feel her bod)7 lessen its pull on her. Usually, her bones feel as if they’re already drawing her into the earth. It smells sweet up here. Clover and rose of Sharon. In the pine tree a mockingbird leaves its perch and soars above the highest branches. Elizabeth Renny hears the calls of the bir Illumination night alice hoffman ds she leaves bread for every morning: starling, cardinal, mockingbird, nuthatch. When she leans forward she sees that what she thought was a cloud isIllumination night alice hoffman
a cluster of white herons, effortlessly sweeping across the sky. Outside, there is music from the portable radio in the neighbor’s shed, but she doesA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABALICEHOFFMANIllumination NightA NovelAlice HoffmanOPENROADINTEGRATED MEDIANEW YORXTo Sara Hoffman 1900-1985To Lillie Lulkin 1903 Illumination night alice hoffman ees, then drops quickly. Up in his room, Simon can hear the sound of pinecones hitting the ground, or bones breaking. A clattering sound, which makes him think of his own kitchen. A spoon hitting against a metal pot.They had fought over the shed and each thinks the other has won. Vonny had wanted it Illumination night alice hoffman for her potter’s wheel, Andre for his motorcycles, and in the end there was an uneasy compromise. Andre set up Vonny’s kiln against the wall near a sIllumination night alice hoffman
mall window barred with wire mesh. On days when she fires pottery he pulls the bike he’s working on—currently a 1934 Norton—into the yard and spends tA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABALICEHOFFMANIllumination NightA NovelAlice HoffmanOPENROADINTEGRATED MEDIANEW YORXTo Sara Hoffman 1900-1985To Lillie Lulkin 1903 Illumination night alice hoffman ck inside. On these days he works until midnight, although he has no timetable. He has come here to do what he wants—restore old motorcycles that he sells to collectors. Growing up in New Hampshire, he was taught not to talk too much, and not to listen much either. Now Vonny, who knew exactly what h Illumination night alice hoffman e was like when she married him, wants more from him. It would be as though he expected her to cross a bridge, when he knew from the start she would gIllumination night alice hoffman
o a hundred miles out of her way to avoid one. He had been used to New Hampshire girls who went to bed with him for a price: aA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABALICEHOFFMANIllumination NightA NovelAlice HoffmanOPENROADINTEGRATED MEDIANEW YORXTo Sara Hoffman 1900-1985To Lillie Lulkin 1903A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABALICEHOFFMANIllumination NightA NovelAlice HoffmanOPENROADINTEGRATED MEDIANEW YORXTo Sara Hoffman 1900-1985To Lillie Lulkin 1903Gọi ngay
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