A new path to the waterfall

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Publisher
Harvill Press
Released
1989
Pages
126

A new path to the waterfall

1989 · Book · Raymond Carver

Fiction, short stories (single author)Poetry (poetic works by one author)PoetryModern Poetry

Back at the hotel, watching her loosen, then comb out her russet hair in front of the window, she deep in private thought, her eyes somewhere else, I am reminded for some reason of those Lacedaemonians Herodotus wrote about, whose duty it was to hold the Gates against the Persian army.

by Raymond Carver