Losing Battles | Style
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Losing Battles is filled with similes, all of them fresh and inventive, some wildly unexpected. The following all appear on a single page:
The dust Uncle Homer had made still rolled the length of the home road, like a full red cotton shirtsleeve.
The farm was as parched now as an old clay bell of wasp nest packed up against the barn rafters.
Heat, like the oldest hand, seized Jack and Gloria by the scruff of the neck and kept hold.
They marched through the cornfield, all husks, robbed of color by drought as if by moonlight.
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