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"Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one, a moment, in childhood when it first occurred to you that you don't go on for ever. It must have been shattering- stamped into one's memory. And yet Ican't remember it. It never occurred to me at all. What does one make of that? We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the words for it, before we know that there are words, out we come, bloodied and squalling with the knowledge that for all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure."
- Tom Stoppard
(1937 - ),
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 81 pages
Edition: 1 ED
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 0006480985
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Rita wants to pop her six-year-old son Max in a baggie with a Ziploc top - so she can preserve his innocence and trust, so she won't have to watch him lose faith in the world. Everywhere she looks, she sees chaos. She fears she can never provide Max with the security he craves. His absentee father, a surgeon, seems to have disappeared somewhere into a war zone. All she can offer is love and loyalty, but will it be enough? Rita, who does battle with the mice in her cupboard and the fibroids in her belly, is living on the edge of urban normalcy in a disintegrating family: a mother suffering from a debilitating illness; a sister whose failing marriage is sliding into the sordid domesticity of body hair disgust; a brother enamoured of a God omnipresent in his schizoid mind; and a father wrapped in lottery fever. Suddenly, an incident upsets the fragile balance between hope and fear in Rita's life, setting in motion events that bring her to the brink of despair. Teaching Pigs to Sing creates a recognizable world of urban decay - of hospital waiting rooms, donut shops, vandalized cars, stolen goods, scary parks. But in this precarious world, made even more tentative by the inability of men and women to love one another, Strube, with wit and compassion, can still find resilience and glimmers of hope.
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