Sufferings of Love/ Garcia Marquez
The young doctor was disappointed: he had never had the opportunity to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. Dr. Juvenal Urbino had been surprised that he had not seen him at the Medical School, but he understood in an instant from the young man’s easy blush and Andean accent that he was probably a recent arrival in the city. He said:
“There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance one of these days.”
And only after he said it, he realized that among the countless suicides he could remember, this was the first with cyanide that had not been caused by the sufferings of love. Then something changed in the tone of his voice.
“And when you do find one, observe with care,” he said to the intern: “they almost always have crystals in their heart.”
“That man loves you.” / Andre Dubus, III.
In a dialogue between a granddaughter and her grandmother, Andre Dubus deals with the high expectations of the spouses nowadays. His conclusion goes back to what long-lasting marriages have always been,
“Living with a man is a job, Suzie. You go to work whether you feel like it or not.”
Gone So Long tells the disjointed story of a father who has killed his wife and searches for his daughter after a lengthy jail time. You will find excellent passages. Andre Dubus writes well with forceful prose.
