Pull Down Vanity

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Excerpt from Pull Down Vanity: And Other StoriesMeanwhile, they were all outside: the shrill kids and runty dogs (but their shrillness broke against the persistence of heat), the shirtless fathers watching the brief rest of their hairy arms, the ¿ushed women in doorways, their supper dishes done, not daring to think yet - sleep.It was as if the airless houses had been turned inside out, and Warren had the sense of trespassing before each stoop, a hundred privacies gave sullenly before his invasion. Each time, the childrenwould stand fixed in the attitudes of their interrupted play, grudge insolently his passage, forcing him to brush against their sweaty shoulders - and then, behind him, the sound of the ball, the scuffling breaths, the cries. And the warm parents would raise toward him their eyes, indolent, curious, their faces would turn toward his coming, hold him in precise focus as he passed their doorway, follow his back until his going released them to weariness or whatever dream survived the atrocious summer.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.