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261 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 1958


"But it's only an old woman dying," Louise said. "That's all..." Still standing, the grass, the thin tongues of the grass along her bare legs swaying gently -not the breeze but the warm air in its indolent eddies- the high timothy, its supple spidery heads waving, licking her ankles, the multifarious green tongues of the earth, and around her this soft vibration of heat gradually fading, the outlines of things undulating like algae, the aspen leaves endlessly trembling, swaying, palpitating, the seven o'clock train coming out from behind the rise