GOOD NIGHT. A bit of reading before sleep? Yeets? Too wiped. The soft hills of the coverlid. The sweeping tides of the sheets. I dive and tumble toward dreams, when something rattles the house. Two knocks followed by a pause followed by two more knocks. Have I told you about this?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ROGER ROSENBLATT is the author of six off-Broadway plays and eighteen books, including Lapham Rising, Making Toast, Kayak Morning, and The Boy Detective. He is the recipient of the 2015 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement.
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SELECTED TITLES BY ROGER ROSENBLATT
The Book of Love
The Boy Detective
Kayak Morning
Unless It Moves the Human Heart
Making Toast
Beet
Lapham Rising
Children of War
Rules for Aging
Anything Can Happen
The Man in the Water
CREDITS
COVER DESIGN BY SARA WOOD
COVER PHOTOGRAPHS:
SKY © JUAN CARLOS MUÑOZ / AGE FOTOSTOCK
ROAD © IVAN VDOVIN / AGE FOTOSTOCK
COPYRIGHT
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THOMAS MURPHY. Copyright © 2016 by Roger Rosenblatt. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, downloaded, transmitted, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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