Prologue: Amid So Much Ruin, Still the Beauty 6(19)
PART ONE GETTING HER
American Light
25(22)
That Boat
47(12)
Gone to Firewood
59(13)
States of Rapture
72(22)
PART TWO WHEN SHE WAS NEW, 1934-1935
Home
94(10)
Shadow Story
104(42)
High Summer
146(20)
Catching Fish
166(35)
On Being Shot Again
201(19)
Outside Worlds
220(25)
Exuberating, and Then the Jackals of His Mind
245(19)
PART THREE BEFORE
Edens Lost and Darkness Visible
264(36)
PART FOUR OLD MEN AT THE EDGE OF THE SEA: ERNEST/GIGI/WALTER HOUK, 1949-1952 AND AFTER
Moments Supreme
300(16)
Facet of His Character
316(29)
The Gallantry of an Aging Machine
345(36)
Braver Than We Knew
381(8)
In Spite of Everything
389(16)
"Necrotic"
405(14)
What He Had
419(27)
Reenactment
446(9)
Epilogue: Hunger of Memory 455(12)
Acknowledgments 467(4)
Essay on Sources 471(32)
Coda: On the Curious Afterlife of Pilar 503(6)
Selected Bibliography 509(6)
Index 515