Shedding Skin

ISBN: 9780671536138

定价: 60.00

内容简介

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In Which I Be~gin by Digging My Hole
I have my blue jeans rolled up to reveal the plaid underside
and my Tom Corbett Space Cadet T-shirt clings tight to my
stomach. Yes??? and my white high-topped Keds surround my
dancing feet??? my red bandanna is tied around my neck??? the
point tickling my throat. Behind me??? in the row house??? Freda
and Father sit beneath the Norman Rockwell kitchen calendar
arguing about budgets. Ahead of me is Craig Avenue. That s
where the Hill is??? where Baba Looie might be. It is where
Gene Autry and Roy Rogers move inside our bodies??? take over
our speech??? stop stuttering in Walter??? make Kirk forget his
scraped-up knees??? turn Shirley Steinberg--who will later get
gunned down for real in a tavern fight--into the traveling
minstrel girl??? charm a man out of his snake ring like it or not.
Running down Craig Avenue??? I m no fat kid who will have
trouble with braces acne marriage. I will not step on a crack.
I am Lash LaRue; the bushes shrink from my touch. Me and
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