![]() Jessie also hallucinates a more self-assured version of herself, who explains things about her and Gerald that she never had the courage to acknowledge. He then informs her that she is beginning to suffer from dehydration and fatigue. He taunts her about the truths of their strained marriage and his erectile dysfunction. Gerald stands up and begins talking when Jessie notices his body remains on the floor, she realizes she is hallucinating. Jessie tries to scare it away, but it bites a chunk out of Gerald's arm and eats it. The dog enters through the open door of the house. After a heated argument in which he accuses her of not even trying to rekindle their relationship, Gerald dies of a heart attack, falling onto the floor and leaving Jessie trapped in the handcuffs.Ī few hours pass. He begins to enact a stranger rape fantasy she half-heartedly plays along but soon becomes uncomfortable, telling him to stop and uncuff her. Inside, she changes into a new slip and Gerald restrains her with a set of handcuffs locked to the bedposts. While Gerald takes Viagra, Jessie feeds raw beef to a stray dog outside. Her adult novels include The Widows Children, A Servant's Tale, and The God of Nightmares, and News from the World: Stories and Essays.Jessie and Gerald Burlingame arrive at an isolated lake house in Fairhope, Alabama for a romantic getaway. Fox is best known for her children's books, such as The Slave Dancer, which earned her a Newbery Medal and a Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1984. She wrote her first adult novel, Poor George, while she was living in Greece with her family followed by Maurice's Room, her first children's book. ![]() She was also a salesgirl, a model, a worker in a rivet-sorting shop, and lastly a lathe operator at the Bethlehem Steel during World War II. At sixteen, she was reading books for Warner Brothers, including Spanish novels. Before that she worked in a wide variety of jobs. ![]() Fox didn't start writing until she started a job teaching troubled children. ![]() She spent 3 years at Columbia University but didn't graduate. Fox attended nine schools before she was twelve. In Cuba, she went to a one-room school with eight other students who ranged in age from six to fourteen. When she was eight, she moved to a Cuban plantation and stayed for two years. How can the man she grew up wishing was near seem so far away now? And how can she bring him back to her? As the sun sets on their month together, Catherine struggles against the terrible things she is learning about her father. Up close, her fancy-free father seems different - darker, like the Nova Scotian night sky. ![]() He drinks a lot - more than Catherine imagines other fathers drink. "Finally," she will know her father as the other girls at school know theirs - his habits, his laugh, and most of all, his wonderful stories.īut their summer of discovery is soon overshadowed by Mr. Ames suggests a month-long stay at a summer cabin in Nova Scotia for just the two of them, Catherine is thrilled. And except for fleeting visits which always left Catherine yearning for more, her father has always been a mystery to her. Read full overviewĬatherine Ames's father is a traveler - he always has been. "How can one month change everything?"Catherine Ames's father is a traveler - he always has been. ![]()
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