A Boat Load of Home Folk (2012)
“His ineffectuality encased him and from his cage of flesh he snarled at the day’s frustrations and threatened to escape. During the seven years he had been working around the islands, his wife made trips back to the mainland each summer taking the daughter when she was due to return to school and then the much younger son. She stayed with friends there for eight weeks while his timber bungalow on the side of the lagoon grew calm and winds seemed to blow through the wooden shutters as he devoure...d his freedom like a starving man. It could not be said that he had never loved her, although he would excuse himself now by asking what would any young man know of love in his twenties, and other married men would agree over their drinks and they would form a kind of club for mutual outpourings of regret.
He had endured for fifteen years.
Then suddenly, as if there were some sexual re-growth, he found himself absorbed in a woman he had observed with interest discard at least two of his friends and batter down the last shreds of reserve the community wanted to impose.MoreLess
He had endured for fifteen years.
Then suddenly, as if there were some sexual re-growth, he found himself absorbed in a woman he had observed with interest discard at least two of his friends and batter down the last shreds of reserve the community wanted to impose.MoreLess
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