Ghost Town

At the advanced, improbable age of thirty-nine, after one disastrous marriage and innumerable episodic affairs, Constantine Reinhart was still pliant enough—still myopically hopeful enough—to fall in love once again; and to fall in love abruptly, in the space of an hour. He might have been seventee...

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1. Verfasser: Oates, Joyce Carol
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprache:Anglais
Veröffentlicht: Journal of the Short Story in English 2025
Online Zugang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Zusammenfassung:At the advanced, improbable age of thirty-nine, after one disastrous marriage and innumerable episodic affairs, Constantine Reinhart was still pliant enough—still myopically hopeful enough—to fall in love once again; and to fall in love abruptly, in the space of an hour. He might have been seventeen years old, a terrified freshman at Michigan State University. He might have been fifteen, or thirteen, back in high school in Commerce City, shaken by emotions he knew to be faintly ludicrous and...