Notes from a Small Island, by Bill Bryson (@McClellandBooks) #seenreadingTO
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Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson (McClelland & Stewart)
Page 72:
Knowing already of the town's carefully nurtured reputation for gentility, I moved there in 1977 with the idea that this was going to be a kind of English answer to Bad Ems or Baden-Baden - manicured parks, Palm Courts with Orchestras, swank hotels where men in white gloves kept the brass gleaming, bosomy ladies in mink coats walking those little dogs you ache to kick (not out of cruelty, you understand, but from a slmple, honest desire to see how far you can make them fly). Sadly, I have to report that almost none of this awaited me.
She was at the age now of the mother of that author, the one who wrote a family column on raising a son as a single mother, trying to date while starting a new novel and the recent addition of her mother living steps away in the converted garage. It had been her study for years, but now it housed the woman the author described "as alien to me as if she'd fallen from the stars, beyond the stars, far beyond the stars where it's common sense to wear a cable-knit sweater on a summer day, and, judge me if you will, all I could imagine in that moment was her head facedown in the sand, my hand holding her in place, catching just a few solitary moments of sunshine against my bare shoulders." At the time, it had horrified the woman. She'd always been coldblooded and dreaded the day her own child might resent her for needing to layer. But there was something to be said about these small dogs, their neighbour's in particular, no bigger than the base of a compost bin.
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