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Authors: Martha Grimes
Rose,
he said. That's who you remind me of. She did not seem to think it was odd that he had said
Rose.
Then he was silent. That was wrong, somehow. Phoebe, it was Phoebe he was thinking about, wasn't it? Phoebe with all of her flaxen hair spread out in the street.
His hand reached toward her hair; she drew back. As he turned his head, he saw the lights of cars, blue domes whirring up there along the King's Road. A voice hailed him and was carried off by the wind.
Someone screamed. And then she broke from his arms and started to run. There was shouting, torches burning and circling like little moons, people scrambling down the steps.
Before he raised the gun he had time to think of the irony of this. That he hadn't meant to hurt her; she hadn't even known who he was.
The voice that had hailed him called out again:
“Ned!”
He felt the gun heavy in his hand. Strange that he hadn't felt angry with David. But he shouldn't have told him he was coming here; he should have known David would follow him.
Ned heard the explosion, felt nothing, saw a terrible white glare â stars showering like meteors, moon breaking like a mirror, raincoat flying down the strand.
DOUBLE DOUBLE
is a dual memoir of alcoholism written by Martha Grimes and her son Ken. This brutally candid book describes how different both the disease and the recovery can look in two different peopleâeven two people who are mother and son.
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