Critical Survey of Short Fiction: Italo Calvino - Louise Erdrich |
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cannot escape her mother's shadow . When she leaves , the mother gives her a small stone and makes her promise to find the heart of the house where Wen , the man for whom she is going to work , lives and to hide the stone there ...
cannot escape her mother's shadow . When she leaves , the mother gives her a small stone and makes her promise to find the heart of the house where Wen , the man for whom she is going to work , lives and to hide the stone there ...
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... mother's body , which lies alone upstairs in a state of rigor mortis . He sends Mary away and confronts the dead mother , whose stiff outstretched arm had been impossible for Mary to manage . Moments later , in their intimacy near the ...
... mother's body , which lies alone upstairs in a state of rigor mortis . He sends Mary away and confronts the dead mother , whose stiff outstretched arm had been impossible for Mary to manage . Moments later , in their intimacy near the ...
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... mother and her current consort . Mauricio's eerily un- conventional behavior disturbs and offends his mother . He has no interest in food , sports , record players , motor scooters , rock music , or any of the usual preoccupations of ...
... mother and her current consort . Mauricio's eerily un- conventional behavior disturbs and offends his mother . He has no interest in food , sports , record players , motor scooters , rock music , or any of the usual preoccupations of ...
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