Description
A young couple drifting toward the end of their intimacy turns to a life of trespass, breaking into Florida vacation homes while the owners are away and lingering long enough to feel the shape of other people’s lives. As they move from house to house, they encounter a shifting cast of drifters and strangers whose stories unfold in startling, lingering bursts—sometimes taking over the room for pages at a time. Blending motion and stillness, the novel explores desire and disconnection, the ethics of taking, and the uneasy intimacy between those who arrive uninvited and those who leave behind traces. With Joy Williams’s spare, lyrical intensity and her gift for unsettling emotional realism, the book turns a seemingly simple premise into a haunting meditation on loneliness, memory, and the ways we keep searching for something that won’t stay.
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paperback
Flamingo
Published Jan 1, 1989
256 pages
ISBN: 9780006543664
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First Published
1988
Language
eng
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