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By Alison Lurie

Jenny has committed her existence to her husband, the naturalist Wilkie Walker. She is as infrequent a creature because the endangered species he works to maintain. yet this 12 months, as iciness comes on, Wilkie turns out far-off and depressed. In desperation Jenny persuades him to go to Key West, however the solar and tropical surroundings do not anything to cheer him up. As he grows even stranger, Jenny turns into concerned with a few unique neighborhood characters - together with Gerry, an ex-beatnik poet, and Lee, the dramatically beautiful supervisor of a women-only visitor condominium.

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For a number of days he had performed with the belief of revenging himself via accusing the writer of this letter—not by way of identify, yet in order that everybody on the collage may realize him—of the demise of the Copper Beech. Slowly and fatally, its root process will be killed via the development of a few such gruesome nonsense. yet finally Wilkie had pushed aside this concept. He needs to think about the survivors: his family members, his acquaintances, his critics, and his readers. a few, doubtless, may make the relationship among himself and the Copper Beech. If he portrayed it as destroyed through human stupidity, they could imagine that Wilkie Walker believed that he too were pushed to his dying through adverse and ignorant folks. This used to be not just unfaithful, it will make him look vulnerable, maybe even a bit paranoid. while if the Copper Beech have been toppled in a good hurricane, all a person could suspect was once that Wilkie used to be talented with precognition, because timber don't dedicate suicide. this day, as a result, he had moved the ultimate model of this finishing right into a relevant place on his table with the completed manuscript, and placed the others away. As he did so he felt a few remorse at having to discard the opposite models, either one of which contained first-class passages—some of the easiest he had ever written, in reality. yet he knew he had made the appropriate selection. approximately Jenny he was once much less effortless. He had deliberate to make their final days jointly memorable and intimate, to make her satisfied in each way—even agreeing to the banquet she’d proposed to offer. yet he had needed to forgo the lengthy, intimate, comfy conversations he had imagined their having the following in Key West. the difficulty used to be that each time they have been by myself jointly Wilkie was once assailed through the impulse to trace at a few of what used to be on his brain. there has been even the risk that he may perhaps all at once weaken and inform her every thing, as he had roughly performed for thus decades. while he had discover an irrational anger at Jenny simply because she didn’t comprehend what used to be on his mind—irrational, simply because he had performed all he might to avoid her realizing. and because he have been winning, and Jenny didn’t recognize what was once on his mind—didn’t even guess—she did issues that aggravated him. She saved attempting to direct his cognizance to meaningless nationwide and native occasions, or to supposedly funny newspaper tales and cartoons. She proposed social and cultural occasions, and sought after him to talk to his youngsters at the cellphone. simply the day before today she were pestering him to compliment her to a few movie, studying the studies out loud and telling him that a few new buddy of hers acknowledged it was once awesome. For a second Wilkie had felt virtually adversarial to his spouse. whilst he checked out her around the breakfast desk she not resembled a transfigured human model of a salt marsh mouse. as a substitute she reminded him of one other creature faraway from the specter of extinction, relatively expanding in numbers each year: Sorex arareus, the typical or backyard shrew, with its shrill little twittering voice. yet that used to be purely the effect of a second. It have been deeply painful this day to go away Jenny with out a signal, and in his brain he had attempted out many final speeches: informal words that when the very fact might reverberate with that means.

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