title: Hole In The Sky : A Memoir
author:  William Kittredge 
description: The author's grandfather, William Kittredge, began in 1911 to amass what he thought would be paradise for himself and for his descendants: a cattle and farming empire of more than 15,000 acres in the Warner Valley of southeastern Oregon. He reshaped the land and his family to fit the dream. But within the span of three generations, this willed Garden of Eden, which once had drawn the powerful and famous, fell into disarray. The author recounts the destruction not only of the land but of his family and, especially, himself--his flights into alcohol and extramarital affairs. Kittredge ( Owning It All ) parlays vivid prose and storytelling talent to produce a powerful indictment of materialism and its capacity to undermine the spirit and dissolve human connections with the universe. <br />Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  CITY OF MARGINS
  
  A NOVEL
  
  WILLIAM BOYLE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Dedicated to the memory of David Berman.
  
  Thank you for the songs and poems.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  From a distance,  
  The city looks like broken glass.  
  —Joe Bolton, “Little Testament”
  
  I’m the fire, I’m the fire’s reflection  
  I’m just a constant warning to take the other direction.  
  —Jim Carroll, “City Drops into the Night”
  
  She believed that all life from the womb to the grave was a coincidence. She
  knew that in the womb it was indubitably coincidence; in fact, everything
  about the womb was coincidence, from what went in it to what came out of it.
  She believed in coincidence as a pilot believes in air. He doesn’t see it, but
  he’s flying many tons of steel on it, so it must be there.
  
  Her whole life was a series of coincidences, one stumbling after another.  
  —Chester Himes, Pinktoes
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  CONTENTS
  
  [Prologue: July 1991 | Southern Brooklyn](index_split_004.html#filepos7518)
  
  > [Donnie Parascandolo](index_split_005.html#filepos80