#SundaySentence
Every weekend I participate in David Abrams’s “#SundaySentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
Followed immediately by an utter sense of devastation: the collapse of something precious and irreplaceable, that gale of disbelief that follows the news of any loss, that follows the sudden, slipped-from-your-fingers loss of something invaluable.
Source: Alice McDermott, “The Year of the Rabbit” (Harper’s)
I am a fan of Alice McDermott’s novels and essays. I have to track down this one right away. Thanks for posting.
She’s such a terrific writer.
Yes. My favorite story of – maybe all time – is her story from the NYer “Enough.”