Michigan Quarterly Review, July 1st, 2000
Trespassing
The 2000 New England Booksellers' Association Award for a body of work
The place, even at this distance in time, looms as a metaphor, a half remembered country of ruined estates, with canted terraces, broken balustrades and toppled pillars, and the whole of it overgrown with greeny, twisting vines.
There was once money in the town in which I grew up, but by my time all the old families had grown eccentric and were living out their days on dwindling trust funds. Some became collectors of birds' eggs, some kept donkeys in the old estate carriage houses and quoted Spencerian couple...
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