The Book of Ruth
Publisher: Ravenna Press
Published: August 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780976659358
Subjects: General; Fiction / General; Fiction - General
First sentence: Sleep-deprived and staggered, melancholy Lucchesi says aloud to no one, because no one is there, not even himself, "I am hopelessly old," as he searches the bathroom mirror for the face he never haddwelling without mercy on the unacceptable image, touching the evidence of deterioration, who has only Ruth now to save him from himselfRuth, his grieving wife, who grieves because her erratic husband has told her too many times that there can be no joy, no intimacy, no refuge, nothing at all for Thomas Lucchesi, Junior, except inside the art of his fiction.