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264 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1973
It’s not going to rain, she thought relieved: during the night she had heard her daughter complain in her sleep, and if because of bad weather she would have to stay inside the whole day it would take time for her to recover. But was there any possible recovery for Gladys? Barely a month ago Clara had thought her cured and now she again saw Gladys at the bottom of that dark aquarium in which she sank, a new and acute nervous breakdown. Which did not necessarily imply a future and total loss of reason, the mother repeated to herself.
…the body of a dead woman can be infused with energy by means of special electric shocks, the dead woman shudders, now standing she takes some steps and moves, brings her hand to the telephone and when he rushes to her call and knocks on the door she turns the lock and opens, and upon receiving the first – and last – kiss the visitor falls electrocuted on the synthetic rug.
I felt that my eyes were closing, I tried to pay attention to what Leo was saying but besides the fact that my eyelids were heavy, I was hypnotized by his mouth, by his mustache that moved to and fro, the mustache stretched and returned to its place, and his eyes nailed me against the stately high-backed chair, in that large Renaissance dining room.






