Penguin Books, Summer 2012 - Bookseller Services - Penguin Group

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charm and tradition . . .
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From A Good Hard Look:
The peacocks tilted their heads back and bellowed and hollered
their desires into the night. They snapped their shimmering
tails open and shut like fans. Behind each male’s
pointy head, a green-bronze arch unfurled, covered with a
halo of gazing suns. The females brayed and shook their lessattractive
tails in return.
The birds didn’t care that it was the middle of the night,
and they didn’t care who they were disturbing. They didn’t
care that there was a wedding tomorrow, or that the groom,
who had just arrived from New York City, was lying beneath
a lace canopy at his in-laws’ house, paralyzed with fear. They
didn’t care that his fiancée startled awake in the next room
and toppled out of her high bed, and they certainly didn’t care
that her face hit a stool on the way down. They didn’t care that
the rest of the small Georgia town was also awake, twitching
in their beds like beached fish.
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Fiction 5 5 /16 x 8 336 pp. Rights: E33
Pub history: The Penguin Press hc 978-1-59420-292-6
On sale: 6/26/2012
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