“Thanks, but alcohol does not play nicely with my heart pills.” Breathe in the smell of it, sweet and dark. Watch the red swirling up against the sides of Len’s and Mary’s glasses.
He’ll have to listen to that delicious glugging sound of the first pour. The bottle is sitting on a coaster in the middle of the table. Mary, Len’s neighbour invites them both over for Thanksgiving Dinner, where they all have their own reasons for refusing the wine. An ex-con named Curtis finds Len just as he’s about to roll over the edge of the boardwalk into the frigid swamp at the waterfowl park, in grief over the death of his dog. Len appears again later in Crooked Little House (inspired by the painting “ Dog, Boy and St. And though he never stopped looking for it, he never saw the silver Honda again. Sit over one cooling cup of coffee until his usual coming home time.Īnd when, in time, she did come back, did slide those few inches to press up against him, all he felt was the usual gratitude and relief. Next the script directed him to turn and walk to that little cafe around the corner. He felt as if he were in a play, performing a role he had been rehearsing all his life. Len seemed to know exactly what to do – step quickly back behind a tall hedge and watch as the Honda passed him by, the driver invisible through the sunlit windshield. As he gets ready to visit his wife’s grave he looks back at their life together, including the time he saw her kissing a man through the window of a Honda. Len Sparks lives alone with his dog, Sister. (On the campus of the university you can visit Colville House.) The first story, The Last Trumpet, was inspired by “ Kiss with Honda” and takes place in Sackville, New Brunswick, where Colville taught fine arts at the university.
The brilliant thing about this book is that all the stories are inspired by Alex Colville paintings – an idea I am in love with. Miller’s most recent book, and it’s the one I read first (thanks to the folks at Biblioasis, who sent me a copy!). These stories are brilliant and addictive and I wanted them to last forever. I have been itching to write about these books since reading them – since before I finished reading them.
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