Goes beating the walls with her timid wingsĪnd knocking her head against the rotten ceiling – Charles Baudelaire, Spleenĭamn you, Leonard Peacock : you made me remember of who used to be one of my favorite poet when I was a teenager. When the earth is changed into a humid dungeon, Spreads over us a day gloomier than the night On the groaning spirit, victim of long ennui, When the low, heavy sky weighs like a lid In this riveting look at a day in the life of a disturbed teenage boy, acclaimed author Matthew Quick unflinchingly examines the impossible choices that must be made-and the light in us all that never goes out. Speaking to each in turn, Leonard slowly reveals his secrets as the hours tick by and the moment of truth approaches. Because today is the day he will kill his former best friend, and then himself, with his grandfather’s P-38 pistol.īut first he must say good-bye to the four people who matter most to him: his Humphrey Bogart-obsessed next-door neighbor, Walt his classmate, Baback, a violin virtuoso Lauren, the Christian homeschooler he has a crush on and Herr Silverman, who teaches the high school’s class on the Holocaust. It is also the day he hides a gun in his backpack. Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick
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