Undone (2015)
“He was startled to see how much weight he had put on lately. His pectorals were flabby and seemed to droop a little over his swollen belly. The area under his chin held a ridge of fat. And there were, he noticed, two symmetrical areas of shiny skin visible on his temples where his hair was receding. Maybe he should think about growing his hair out a bit—cover those bald spots. And he should definitely get out and do some running. To think of how his body had changed from those days when he had ...taught tennis at the New Halcyon Club, as a lean twenty-two-year-old with rocklike deltoids and sharply cut abdominal muscles. Funny, he hadn’t until now noticed any of these changes. Hadn’t, perhaps, cared about them. Was it something about Chloe, about her youth and freshness, that had made him suddenly so conscious of how he had aged and of how quickly time was passing? Had her power to pull him back, in memory, to that summer almost twenty years ago underlined the toll that the years had already taken on him?MoreLess
Read book Undone for free
You can download books for free in various formats, such as epub, pdf, azw, mobi, txt and others on book networks site. Additionally, the entire text is available for online reading through our e-reader. Our site is not responsible for the performance of third-party products (sites).
Write Review:
Guest
Read Also
10 / 10
9 / 10
User Reviews: