Sunday, January 03, 2010

The Broken Shore

Peter Temple 2005 The Text Publishing Company

They ordered bacon and eggs a the truckstop on the edge of Cromarty. An anorexic girl with a moustache and a pink-caked pimple between her eyebrows brought the food. The eggs lay on tissue-paper bread, the yokes small and pasta coloured. Narrow pink streaks of meat could be seen in the grey pig fat. p 199

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