Francine Prose
:: Blue Angel
Sherrie believes that spring will come, whereas Swenson's always shocked when the snow melts and the first crocuses appear.
... to decide between bookstores is to be a writer.
He is extremely sorry for having spent twenty years of his one and only life, twenty years he will never get back, among people he can't talk to, men and women to whom he can't even tell the simple truth.