Söndags-smakbit # 10

Bloggen Betraktelser ger oss på söndagar chansen att publicera ett litet smakprov ur en bok vi läser.
Jag läser en samling nya noveller Flint Kill Creek av Joyce Carol Oates
Smakbit ur ”Late love” sid 218
”-Soon after they were married, and living together in the husbands house, a sprawling five-bedroom dark-shingled American Craftsman with national landmark status on a ridge above the University – the husband began to wake the wife in the night, talking in his sleep, or rather arguing, pleading, begging in his sleep, in the grip of dreams that held him captive, from which the wife had difficulty extricating him.
Each time the wife was wakened with a jolt. Scarcely knowing where she was and who this agitated person was beside her, his broad sweaty back to her, in what felt like an unfamiliar bed with a hard unyielding mattress and an unfamiliar pillow and in a room whose dimensions and shadowy contours were alien to her. ”