By S.A. Jones
This is often the tale of an intimate circle of pals and one couple, Will and Emily, who're greatly in love with one another. Will is an engineer who succeeds via exertions and backbone instead of innate skill. Emily is quiet and withdrawn, operating for a writer and saying herself in simple terms whilst she explores her passions of literature and cooking. Unknown to Will or her associates, Emily retains a mystery magazine of news she believes are shared along with her through marginal characters from her favourite novels. those characters by surprise develop into more and more genuine to her, and because the strains among fact and fiction start to blur, Will, Emily, and their shut circle of pals develop into stuck up in a single another’s lives in methods they by no means notion attainable. no longer lengthy after a fourth anniversary dinner celebrating their dating, Will is suffering to discover how to enable Emily comprehend that he desires to make a long term dedication. He ultimately stumbles upon a beautiful crimson gown that he believes will express Emily simply how a lot he loves and appreciates her person variety and character, yet regardless of his reliable intentions, the reward units in movement a sequence of occasions that create a massive rift of their dating. A thought-provoking novel of attractiveness, books, love, and hope, crimson costume strolling is a playful, smart, and attractive novel approximately women and men, the fierce friendships that girls have, and what definite books suggest to us.
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Technically correct but morally wobbly. For all that she provoked me, Katya was important to me. ps 1/8/08 8:13 AM Page 51 R ED D RESS WALKING friendship once again. She played her usual card almost immediately: ‘We were never going out together,’ she protested. ‘You know, Katya, you say that like it absolves you from all responsibility. Like it’s a magic phrase that disappears everything that happens between us. It doesn’t. ’ She looked shocked. ’ ‘No, of course we haven’t. You because you don’t want to have to wear the responsibility of making that kind of commitment, and me because I’m terrified of scaring you off.
We arranged to meet at a Vietnamese restaurant she liked on the east side of the city. She gave me directions but until I actually got into my car I wasn’t certain I would go. It wasn’t that I was leading her on, or even that I didn’t like her, but my heart was elsewhere. All the way on the other side of town, in a converted loft used for a performance space. My mind kept snagging on reasons not to go. Emily wasn’t at all my type physically. She was cute in an unassuming way, but I liked them tall, willowy.
Him pottering about the apartment, always beautifully dressed, chatting or asking me questions. Arranging the dinner table, playing records, casually picking up books from the shelves and asking me questions, trying out his recently acquired knowledge. William rarely read himself, and certainly never fiction, but he was curious about my ideas on certain texts and liked to know the general plot of the books scattered around the living room. Once or twice he had startled me when out by contributing one of my opinions as his own.