Download or read book Sometimes the Soul written by Gioia Timpanelli and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hauntingly beautiful fiction about two women, solitude, art, and transformation. In "A Knot of Tears", a woman's locked-up life is transformed by a parrot who tells tales; "Rusina, Not Quite in Love" offers a strange and lovely retelling of the story of "Beauty and the Beast".