The Road Home (2008)
“He was by the gates to Highgate cemetery, where he noticed that someone had ditched a mound of rubbish in supermarket carrier bags. Ahead of him lay the darkness of Swains Lane.
Lora asked him to send more money. Her voice sounded far away. She said she was in despair about Rudi. Rudi’s depression now seemed to have got a hold on his body, making his bones ache and his muscles cramp and his feet sweat. She said he cried in his sleep.
Lev couldn’t stand to picture this. When he thought about his... friend, he liked to imagine him laughing, arguing, drinking, slapping people’s shoulders with his huge paw of a hand. “I’ll send more,” he said right away.
“I hate to ask you, Lev. You’ve been generous to everybody,” said Lora. “But what I’m hoping, what I’m banking on, is if Rudi can get the Tchevi back on the road, he’ll stop feeling that everything’s over. Because that’s all he keeps saying to me: that our lives are kaput, like the car.”
Lev stood in the dark road, staring at the dim light shining in a window of one of the camper vans.MoreLess
Lora asked him to send more money. Her voice sounded far away. She said she was in despair about Rudi. Rudi’s depression now seemed to have got a hold on his body, making his bones ache and his muscles cramp and his feet sweat. She said he cried in his sleep.
Lev couldn’t stand to picture this. When he thought about his... friend, he liked to imagine him laughing, arguing, drinking, slapping people’s shoulders with his huge paw of a hand. “I’ll send more,” he said right away.
“I hate to ask you, Lev. You’ve been generous to everybody,” said Lora. “But what I’m hoping, what I’m banking on, is if Rudi can get the Tchevi back on the road, he’ll stop feeling that everything’s over. Because that’s all he keeps saying to me: that our lives are kaput, like the car.”
Lev stood in the dark road, staring at the dim light shining in a window of one of the camper vans.MoreLess
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