One Hundred Years of Solitude

a pleasure in spending and
celebrating until she had
converted him inside and out,
into the man she had dreamed
of for herself ever since
adolescence. Then he
married, as all sons marry
sooner or later. He did not
dare tell her the news. He
assumed an attitude that was
quite childish under the
circumstances, feigning anger
and imaginary resentment so
that Petra Cotes would be the