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pseydtonne · 3598 days ago · link · · parent · post: 2nd Bi-Weekly Give Me a Quote from Something You've Been Reading Lately
"Years later, when the Moreno child is twelve, the two daughters that Conte had lost in a vicious divorce on the West Coast are murdered -- to all appearances either by his ex-wife, Nancy, or her husband, Ralph, or both, but no charges were filed, and the long-absent father raced from his grief with legs of stone, while in the grip of his desire for revenge." -Frank Lentricchia, The Dog Killer of Utica ...and yes, this is the recently retired Duke professor that wrote After the New Criticism