Alice in Jeopardy: a Novel
“Even in off-season traffic, it takes her ten minutes from her house to the Lewiston Point Bridge. From there, it takes her another fifteen minutes to Charlie’s house on the northern end of Tall Grass Key.He is sitting on the front porch of his ramshackle house, waiting for her. Wearing white trousers and a baggy blue shirt, he is smoking a pipe, and he looks like the stereotype of any fisherman you might see on any calendar selling cod liver pills, except that he is not a fisherman, he is a pai...nter of abstract-expressionist canvases, and a damn good one at that. His trousers and shirt are now stained with paint, and there are traces of paint under his fingernails as well, and even in the white beard that clings to his cheeks, his chin, and his upper lip, like leftover lather from a hasty shave. It is ten minutes past seven and still light, the sun hovering above the western horizon as if indecisive about its final descent.The moment she pulls into his shell driveway, he rises from where he is sitting on the steps.MoreLess
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