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...close that some even reach out their small, dexterous hands to touch the sleeve of your T shirt. This is not some remote African campsite but the town of Fuengirola, on Spain's densely developed, tourist-packed Costa del Sol. Once you've achieved the perfect sunburn and eaten your body weight in ice cream, head for Fuengirola Zoo, where amazing encounters like these await you. The zoo is tucked among holiday high-rise apartments in the center of town; keep an eye out for the entrance?wide wooden stairs fronted by five flags. Proximity to the animals and scarcity...
...close that some even reach out their small, dexterous hands to touch the sleeve of your T shirt. This is not some remote African campsite but the town of Fuengirola, on Spain's densely developed, tourist-packed Costa del Sol. Once you've achieved the perfect sunburn and eaten your body weight in ice cream, head for Fuengirola Zoo, where amazing encounters like these await you. The zoo is tucked among holiday high-rise apartments in the center of town; keep an eye out for the entrance - wide wooden stairs fronted by five flags. Proximity to the animals...
...perspective, remarking, “Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania.” In “The Sunset Tree” a young Darnielle also loses perspective, but in the other extreme, seeing reflections of his deterioration in the “half-eaten gallons of ice-cream in the freezer.” In “Dance Music,” the child’s desire to escape his parent’s fighting is reduced to the epiphany that “this is what the volume knob...
...area, where she had family and friends. With her savings running out, she applied early (at a reduced rate) for her husband's Social Security. She needed every penny. For health reasons, she couldn't work. She had undergone a double mastectomy. An earlier cancer of the uterus had eaten away at her stomach muscle so that a metal plate and artificial bladder were installed. Her children and other relatives offered to help, but Whitehouse is fiercely self-sufficient. Friends and neighbors pitch in to fill her shed with aluminum. "You put your pride in your pocket, and you learn...
...example, each chapter begins with a two-page diptych. The left page features a still life, usually of a small, discardable piece of detritus, set against a black background. The right page typically shows a character arranged in the same geometry as the left. A half-eaten hamburger viewed from above on the left echoes Chris curled up in the fetal position on the right. Once you notice this you soon discover that, even though the layouts remain constantly varied, nearly every page vaguely or explicitly reflects the construction of the page facing opposite. Imagining the amount effort put into...